voting machines
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Voting Machines With Disappearing Logs Finally Under Investigation
12:00PM Rosa Golijan | We knew how you could hack a voting machine, but California has discovered that some of its machines practically invite you to play. Machines made by Premier Election Solutions are finally under investigation for their faulty, omissive, easily alterable logs. More »
Phones
Estonia Will Be the First Country to Elect Politicians Using Mobile Phones
9:20AM Jesus Diaz | Instant democracy is getting closer. In 2011, Estonians will be able to elect their representatives using mobile phones. How would it work and, more importantly, will it actually work? More »
Software
Diebold Sued for GPL Violations, Allegations of Puppy Kicking to Come
11:00PM Gizmodo US Edition | Artifex, makers of the Linux Ghostscript Postscript interpreter, is suing Diebold for breaking the fair use terms of its software. Diebold used the freely-available software, which is fine, but when they authored some changes to Ghostscript Postscript, they neglected to follow the very reasonable rules such use requires. Biggies like HP, Xerox, and IBM all use Ghostscript legally and honestly, so why can’t Diebold? More »
Entertainment
Voting Machines Coincidentally Elect Voting Machine as President
11:50PM Mark Wilson | It’s amazing that you can fall asleep with the polls showing one thing and wake up to a world you don’t even recognise. Despite who I may have supported as of November 4th, as a fervent supporter of both democracy and touchscreen technology, I accept DRE 700:259 as the 44th President of the United States. But I’m totally using a paper ballet in 2012. [The Onion Thanks Mr. Ponies!] More »
Gadgets
Rube Goldberg Voting Machine Is Irreverent, Thankfully Irrelevant
5:30PM Gizmodo US Edition | Well, the election is over! Luckily, it was pretty clear from about two hours in who would be the winner this time around , so even if there were a couple of iffy voting hijinks, it wouldn’t be anything to take up to the Supreme Court. Still, some post-election voting humour never hurt anybody – check out this Rube Goldberg machine by some kids over at the University of California Berkeley and feel relieved that, unlike in 2000, it’s easy this year to laugh about this kind of stuff. [Thanks Roland!] More »
Question Of The Day
Question of the Day: Do You Prefer a Paper Ballot or a Voting Machine?
9:00AM Sean Fallon | When I went to vote this afternoon, I was kind of disappointed to find that my location was using paper ballots. Not that I have anything against that really—other than the waste of paper it is actually pretty hard to screw up as a voter (although, once my ballot was scanned I suppose anything can happen). I guess the gadget dork in me was just hoping for a touchscreen model—despite the potential reliability issues. So, I have a two part question for you: Which voting method would you prefer? Which did you actually use? More »
Gadgets
Lightning Review: Voting Machines (Verdict Pending)
12:15AM Adam Frucci | The Gadget: Touchscreen, punch card and lever voting machines More »
Gadgets
How the Obama-Hating Voting Machine Fails
1:00AM Matt Buchanan | Remember the voting machines in West Virginia that just couldn’t bring themselves to let people vote Obama? Jackson County Clerk Jeff Waybright, who “hates stories like this” was good enough to show Video the Vote how a mis-calibrated voting machine would take a vote for Obama (or anyone) and turn it into a vote for another candidate—and not necessarily John McCain, either, though that’s what would happen if you picked a straight Democratic ticket. So yeah, this could definitely happen to you.
Gadgets
How to Hack Voting Machines for Fun and Profit
1:30AM Adam Frucci | Voting is great and everything, but wouldn’t it be awesome if you could make your vote count more than once? Or, even better, change other people’s votes to be for your candidate of choice? Well, good news, America! Now that we’re using poorly-designed and insecure electronic voting machines, you can do just that with some simple hacking! And thanks to some researchers at Princeton, anyone can be a voting machine hacker. Here, we’ll show you how! More »
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