CTV Toronto - Election reform bill won't help disabled voters: group - CTV News

CTV Toronto - Election reform bill won't help disabled voters: group - CTV News:

TORONTO — Representatives of voters with disabilities will be at the Ontario legislature today to call on the government to remove barriers impeding their access to polling stations.

David Lepofsky of the AODA Alliance says they want fully accessible elections for over one million voters with disabilities.

Bill 231 is supposed to modernize elections, including addressing barriers facing voters with disabilities.

But Lepofsky says the bill won't ensure that disabled voters can get into polling stations or mark ballots independently.

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Making Voting Systems Open Source Could Forever Change Election Technology

Making Voting Systems Open Source Could Forever Change Election Technology:

A California-based non-profit is creating a suite of open-source election software that allows users to view and modify the underlying computer code. Proponents of the approach say exposing the code used by e-voting machines allows a worldwide community of experts to evaluate the security of the code and make beneficial modifications.

In October 2009, the nonprofit Open Source Digital Voting Foundation (OSDV) made the computer code for its election system available on the Web. The foundation also plans to make other open-source election tools available this year through its Trust the Vote initiative.

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Birmingham Mail - News - Top Stories - Birmingham misspelled on 60,000 postal vote cards

Birmingham Mail - News - Top Stories - Birmingham misspelled on 60,000 postal vote cards:

EMBARRASSED council bosses have vowed to improve their election literature after a SECOND set of postal voting cards wrongly spelled the word Birmingham.

The Mail last week revealed that 60,000 postal ballot cards were sent out with a return deadline of May 29, 2009 – set for last year’s European Election.

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Pakistan : 'Q' urges ECP to introduce electronic voting

'Q' urges ECP to introduce electronic voting | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online:

ISLAMABAD - PML-Q on Tuesday urged the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to adopt electronic voting, which had been successfully implemented in India and it should also be applied in the Pakistan to ensure transparency and prevent bogus voting.

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Indonesia: Constitutional Court Clears Way for Electronic Voting - The Jakarta Globe

Constitutional Court Clears Way for Electronic Voting - The Jakarta Globe:

The Constitutional Court on Tuesday approved the use of electronic voting in Indonesia, effectively allowing Jembrana district in Bali to become the first district to use the technology when it holds its upcoming elections.

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Philippines confident in looming e-elections | Articles | FutureGov - Solutions for Government | Education | Healthcare

Philippines confident in looming e-elections | Articles | FutureGov - Solutions for Government | Education | Healthcare:

In an interview with FutureGov in Manila last week, Jose Melo, Chairman of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC), said he is confident that the technology used for the Philippines’ first-ever computerised election will hold firm when 50 million Filipinos head for the polls on May 10th, and that much opposition to automation has come from those who “no longer know how to cheat.”

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Clemson professor’s voting system to be used in engineer society’s election - Clemson Newsroom

Clemson professor’s voting system to be used in engineer society’s election:

CLEMSON — The National Society of Black Engineers will use an electronic voting system developed by Clemson University professor Juan Gilbert and his team of researchers.

The society will use Prime III for its national elections this week in Toronto, Canada.

Gilbert, director and chairman of the Human-Centered Computing division of the School of Computing, developed Prime III following the 2000 presidential elections while he was at Auburn University.

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