Statewide rule sought on voting machines

Statewide rule sought on voting machines Statewide rule sought on voting machines

Thursday, January 12, 2006
By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With a federal deadline looming and more than $100 million in aid at stake, the future of high-tech voting in all of Pennsylvania's 67 counties is going before Commonwealth Court.

A judge in Westmoreland County yesterday pushed the issue to the state level, making Pedro A. Cortes, secretary of the commonwealth, a defendant in a lawsuit that seeks more public input as county officials prepare to buy tens of thousands of new electronic voting machines for the upcoming May primary.

E-voting Forum with a Sheikh

They can do this, but we can't muster the same in Pittsburgh? Ugh!

The E-voting Forum Under the patronage of H.E. Sheikh Ahmed bin Ataytallah Al-Khalifa State Minister to the Cabinet the Bahrain e-Voting forum will start its work at the Kingdom of Bahrain on 24th and 25th January 2006.

Wisconsin requires evoting machines to be open source

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Other requirements is to provide the voters with a means of checking their votes and also retain votes already cast in the event of a power failure.