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8-25-07: Election Assistance Commission spokesperson says of California’s recent de-certification of several electronic voting systems: “What works in one state may not necessarily apply to all states” (Etopia Voting News #25)
2-27-06: Tarvi Martens talks about Estonia's successful remote Internet voting project, the world's first such national system (Etopia Voting News #24)
10-17-05: "e-stonia" conducts first national Internet elections (Etopia Voting News #23)
5-19-05: Greg Jorgensen, Senior Director, Business Development, at VisualPoint, talks about its VotePoint remote Internet voting system (Etopia Voting News #22)
5-19-05: Larry Franschman, Principal at Evote.ca Inc., talks about remote Internet voting (Etopia Voting News #21)
2-27-05: John Mott-Smith, Director of Elections Division, Office of the Secretary of State, California, obliquely hints that digital signature-based voter identification and authentication databases paid for with HAVA money may be a possibility (Etopia Voting News #20)
2-26-05: An "audit of California HAVA spending under Secretary of State Kevin Shelley" retrospective and wrap-up (Etopia Voting News #19)
2-26-05: Possible revival of remote Internet voting looms in US as Swiss-based co-creator of the Geneva State e-Voting System (GSeVS) opens a new office in Boston, Massachusetts (Etopia Voting News #18)
2-15-05: U.S. Election Assistance Commission votes unanimously to conduct a "special audit" of California's HAVA funding under former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley (Etopia Voting News #17)
12-9-04: Internet Voting in Geneva (Etopia Voting News #16)
11-18-04: United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC) announces that it has no plans to develop Remote Internet Voting System Standards (RIVSS) (Etopia Voting News #15)
11-15-04: More from the Department of Defense on Remote Internet Voting System Standards (RIVSS) (Etopia Voting News #14)
11-8-04: Department of Defense (DoD)'s DoD's Federal Voter Assistance Program (FVAP)'s Brunelli responds with information about Remote Internet Voting System Standards (RIVSS) from Election Assistance Commission (EAC) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as authorized under Section 567 of the 2005 Defense Authorization Act (Etopia Voting News #13)
10-28-04: Lawrence Caplan, Florida attorney, provides an update on Florida's "perfect storm" of electoral confusion (Etopia Voting News #12)
10-20-04: A fresh can of worms is opened as Republican vote-by-fax plans encounter criticism and litigation (Etopia Voting News #11)
10-15-04: State of Missouri and Department of Defense institute non-secret Internet voting system in time for November, 2004, elections (Etopia Voting News #10)
10-8-04: Congresses passes the DOD Internet voting buck to the Election Assistance Commission; no comment yet from EAC (Etopia Voting News #9)
8-30-04: Jenny Nash, spokesperson for Florida's Secretary of State, discusses Snowbirdgate scandal (Etopia Voting News #8)
7-31-04: Barbara Simons, former member of the SPRG that sank SERVE, says that "it would be a mistake" to revive it (Etopia Voting News #7)
7-26-04: Democrats and Republicans Abroad weigh in on SERVE 1 and SERVE 2 (Etopia Voting News #6)
7-15-04: Gail Audette at SysTest Reveals the Secrets of ITAs (Etopia Voting News #5)
6-28-04: An open letter of inquiry to Senator McCain about continuing the SERVE program (Etopia Voting News #4)
6-25-04: Following the SERVE money trail (Etopia Voting News #3)
6-4-04: Congress may revive SERVE, the Pentagon's proposed remote Internet voting system (Etopia Voting News #2)
6-3-04: The Pentagon unveils its plan to improve the overseas voting process for its troops (Etopia Voting News #1)
5-30-04: Making Votes Count: Who Tests Voting Machines?—from the New York Times, May 30, 2004
What We Cover
Etopia Media Voting News reports on issues of politics and technology, in particular the effort now underway in the U.S. to build and deploy electronic voting machines that will ensure fair and free elections. EMVN reports on the controversies surrounding the issue of providing a "voter-verified paper audit trail" (VVPAT) as part of DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) ("touchscreen") voting machines.
Promised Pentagon Files on SERVE
EMVN will also be publishing a number of previously-unreleased documents, which have been promised to it by the United States Department of Defense, following the filing of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with that agency, that may shed light on some unanswered questions and questionable anomalies regarding the Pentagon's "Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment" (SERVE), which was cancelled in late January. 2004, by Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, just as the $22 million dollars appropriated to develop this intended state-of-the-art remote Internet voting system for use in the November, 2004, election, ran out.