E-Voting News and Analysis, from the Experts. Tuesday March 08, 2005. It appears, if this report pans out, that there were massive systemic failures across Maryland involving Diebold AccuVote-TS machines last November; problems including lost votes, multiple machine failures and even unreadable data cartridges. Which is the basis .

David Bismark on Verifiable Electronic Voting. The next step for our democracies is transparent and verifiable elections. Voter verifiability and Public verifiability. A few people have asked about how a voter can be sure that her vote has been counted correctly just because she verifies that her vote has made it correctly into the batch of counted votes when she has no insight into the various stages of decryption and she has not got the expertise to verify those later stages herself.

Liz spent a further 3 hours checking that each clickers had been assigned to the correct student. At least one was caused by students being moved after the clickers were allocated and packaged. These things highlight the need to include a check system in the preparation process.

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