Voting Computer News Roundup

Computer Voting has been in the news quite a bit recently, below are a few items of note:

August 2, 2007: A Reuters article, "Halt "high risk" e-voting-British watchdog," discusses a report by the UK Electoral Commission that trials in Internet voting should be halted.

July 31, 2007: California Senator Diane Feinstein announced "Chairman Feinstein Announces Plans for Rules Committee Hearing to Examine Security of Electronic Voting Machines." See also this Wired Blog

July 30, 2007: Eweek's article, "Security Header What the U.S. Is Doing Wrong with E-Voting," discusses the Red Team report on Voting Machines. See the California Secretary of State Voting Systems Review page for reports by TRUST members David Wagner, Aaron Burstein, Deirdre Mulligan, Chris Karlof and others. Interestingly, some of the coverage seems to take an unusual angle indicating that the reporter is happy that some voting computers will be permitted or that the report is somehow a "bad thing". For examples, see this Santa Rosa, CA Press Democrat Article, "Mendocino voting machines allowed," this AP article, "County officials fear new voting standards will be hard to meet."