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Internet voting not ready for elections, says DHS official

  Unresolved technological problems means Internet voting should not yet be deployed to U.S. elections, a Homeland Security Department cybersecurity official told a conference of election officials and watchdogs.

Denial of service attack mars Canadian party balloting

An online election of new New Democratic Party leadership in Canada on March 24 was slowed by a denial of service attack, according to various media reports. NDP President Rebecca Blaikie said three

Michigan hackers demonstrate why Internet voting is a terrible idea

Internet voting is a bad idea. For why, look no farther than a new paper from the University of Michigan team that broke into an online voting system the city of Washington, D.C. came within days of

Small coding mistake led to big Internet voting system failure

The main security weakness that let University of Michigan researchers take control over a planned city of Washington, D.C. Internet voting system pilot for overseas voters in 2010 was "a tiny...

British Columbia may launch Internet voting pilots

The Canadian province of British Columbia may be inching closer to instituting Internet voting following a Nov. 21 recommendation by Elections B.C., the governmental organization responsible for

Survey: Widespread Internet voting still far from reality

A federal survey of early Internet voting programs in developed countries around the globe may have raised more questions than it provided answers. The survey by the Voting System Testing and

Online banking not a model for Internet voting, says Elections B.C.

Although a comparison is often made between them, online banking and Internet voting are very dissimilar, says a discussion paper from Elections B.C., the organization responsible for conducting

Internet voting pilot could launch in Canada after 2013

The organization responsible for conducting federal elections in Canada says it wants to undertake a pilot of Internet voting in a special election sometime after 2013. Elections Canada, in an Aug.

Pretty Good Democracy suggests path to Internet elections

Internet voting systems can guarantee high levels of privacy or vote verifiability, but not both, said Vanessa Teague, an honorary fellow in the University of Melbourne's department of computer