Engineers Australia internet voting ballot could be declared invalid after a revolt by members.

Engineers Australia internet voting ballot could be declared invalid after a revolt by members.

More than 300 members, the number required to force a new vote, have supported calls for a new ballot requisition nine months after the online poll took place. The requisition is expected to be delivered to Engineers Australia within days.

The association, which has 90,000 members, will then have to inform the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, which will then advise the Office of the Governor-General, who is the Engineers Australia patron.

On November 16, Engineers Australia conducted a ballot seeking changes to its royal charter and bylaws. It used electronic voting for the first time as well as traditional paper-based postal votes. But scrutineers said they had been unable to verify the e-voting results. --->>>

Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software | Threat Level | Wired.com

Diebold Quietly Patches Security Flaw in Vote Counting Software | Threat Level | Wired.com:

Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold, has patched a serious security weakness in its election tabulation software used in the majority of states, according to a lab that tested the new version and a federal commission that certified it.

The flaw in the tabulation software was discovered by Wired.com earlier this year, and involved the program’s auditing logs. The logs failed to record significant events occurring on a computer running the software, including the act of someone deleting votes during or after an election. The logs also failed to record who performed an action on the system, and listed some events with the wrong date and timestamps.

A new version of the software does record such events, and includes other security safeguards that would prevent the system from operating if the event log were somehow shut down, according to iBeta Quality Assurance, the Colorado testing lab that examined the software for the federal government.
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IBeta’s report on the Premier system (.pdf) and testing plan offer an interesting and rare look at the testing and certification procedures for voting systems, which until recently were closely guarded secrets.

Aspen: Ballots are exempt from state open records law | Face the State

Aspen: Ballots are exempt from state open records law | Face the State:

Citizens seeking to conduct an independent review of Aspen's last municipal election have run into a road block at city hall, where officials are refusing to release key documents into the public domain.

Democrat election buff Harvie Branscomb has teamed up with former Republican Aspen mayoral candidate Marilyn Marks to analyze the voting methods and software in the city's last election, including the use of instant runoff voting. To audit the vote, Branscomb's team needs copies of April's ballots plus data generated by vote-counting machines, which the City Council asserts aren't public records under state law.

Branscomb's focus is on innovative new ballot counting software by TrueBallot. Because the home rule municipality opted to use Instant Runoff Voting, where voters rank their choices for mayor and city council, vote tallying required advanced software programs and technology, which Branscomb believes are sophisticated and reliable enough to use statewide.