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E-Voting Report Finds Problems with Modern Elections 165

Posted by Zonk from the i'm-going-to-count-these-again-if-you-don't-mind dept.
JonRob writes "The Open Rights Group has released a report on challenges faced by voting technology. Using the May 2007 Scottish/English elections as a testbed, researchers have collated hundreds of observations into a verdict on voting in the digital age. 'The report provides a comprehensive look at elections that used e-counting or e-voting technologies. As a result of the report's findings ORG cannot express confidence in the results for the areas we observed. This is not a declaration we take lightly but, despite having had accredited observers on location, having interviewed local authorities and having filed Freedom of Information requests, ORG is still not able to verify if votes were counted accurately and as voters intended.' The report is available online in pdf format for download."
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Submission + - Court Says Email Private (enquirer.com)

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carpdeus writes: "The unanimous opinion of a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld U.S. District Judge Susan Dlott's finding last July that prosecutors violated the Constitution when they persuaded a federal magistrate to give them access to Steve Warshak's e-mail accounts at Nuvox Communications and Yahoo!

The argument was that the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable search and seizure applies to electronic communications. The government had used the Stored Communications Act of 1986 to obtain a sealed order and never let Warshak know that his privacy had been violated.

At the moment, this ruling only applies to emails in the southern half of Ohio covered by the Sixth Circuit."

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