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I was saving a mix of articles up ... then this happened. Steven Clift http://dowire.org P.S. I added another voting technology e-list to my e-democracy flyer: http://www.publicus.net/articles/edemresources.html From: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/7885834.htm Pentagon Cancels Internet Voting System JOHN J. LUMPKIN Associated Press Citing security concerns, the Pentagon has canceled Internet voting that would have involved as many as 100,000 military and overseas citizens from seven states in November, a Defense Department official said Thursday. The announcement comes two weeks after outside security experts urged the program's cancellation in a scathing report. They said hackers or terrorists could penetrate the system and change votes or gather information about users. At the time, the Pentagon said it felt confident enough to proceed. ... From: http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=54716&adBann er=eGovernment Or: http://snipurl.com/4bj7 Technology in Government, January/February 2004, Vol. 11 No. 1 Markham's online elections get vote of approval from percentage of electorate 2/4/2004 2:06:43 PM - Most of those who voted over Internet did so from comfort of their own homes by Kathleen Sibley The residents of Markham, Ont. have voted -- not just for their mayor and council, but for a new way of electing them. The town, located just north of Toronto with a population of about 220,000, piloted Internet voting during a 10-day early voting period before election day on Nov. 10. According to CIO James Allen, of the 150,000 registered voters, 12,000 pre- registered to cast their votes electronically. Of those, more than 7,000 voted over the Internet, either from home, public libraries or at touch-screen kiosks at City Hall. ... A bunch from Ireland: http://www.politics.ie/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=newind ex&catid=48 Or: http://snipurl.com/4biy ... From: http://star- techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2004/1/14/technology/7106693&sec= technology Or: http://snipurl.com/4bj5 Philippines e-voting system hung by non-technical glitch MANILA: Plans by the Philippines to use computers for the first time to count ballots in May 10 elections were set back and probably sunk Tuesday when the Supreme Court nullified a multimillion-dollar equipment contract it said was illegally awarded by the Elections Commission. 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