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4-22-04: Pentagon's Office of Freedom of Information and Security Review (OFOISR) reverses course, acknowledges that LVN reporter is indeed "a representative of the news media," and promises contact "in the near future."
4-3-04: Pentagon's Directorate for Freedom of Information and Security Review rules that SERVE's most attentive reporter is not a "representative of the news media"; disappointed reporter appeals their decision
3-17-04: Latest Voting News Files a Freedom of Information Act Request with Pentagon to Get SERVE Data
3-5-04: Links to Latest VotingNews reports about SERVE's (lack of) certification and, in fact, its uncertifiability under existing law
3-5-04: Pentagon's SERVE and SERVE general contractor accenture still haven't answered some basic questions about that program's funding
3-3-04: Third time's the charm for computer scientist's attacks on Internet voting; unfortunately, the Pentagon spent $22 million trying to do what they finally heard him saying couldn’t be done
2-28-04: Unanswered Money Questions Haunt Uncancelled-But-Stood-Down SERVE Program
2-12-04: EAC Goes Public with Promise of $2.3 Billion for Voting "Upgrades." Is it a Boon for Voters or Just a Boondoggle for a Few Voting Machine Companies?
2-12-04: SERVE hasn't been cancelled, says Pentagon
2-6-04: The Pentagon stopped SERVE on January 30, 2004; the news took almost a week "to filter down"
2-5-04: The Pentagon Stops SERVE Now!
2-3-04: House Armed Services Committee "is reviewing" SERVE; Pentagon promises that SERVE will receive "a highly recognizable certification"
2-3-04: NIST gets $0 in FY04 and $0 in FY05 to assist EAC upgrade voting technology
2-2-04: Executive Director of Republicans Abroad discusses the bi-partisan effort to delay SERVE
1-31-04: Executive Director Emeritus of Democrats Abroad discusses the bi-partisan effort to delay SERVE
1-30-04: Republicans AND Democrats Abroad Unite in Historic Call to Stop SERVE Now!
1-30-04: Much-delayed but finally-passed Republican Omnibus Appropriation Bill gives NIST $0.00 out of $500,000 authorized by HAVA to help EAC update voting standards
1-29-04: SPRG member says that SERVE is a "mail system," not a "voting system"
1-28-04: National Association of Secretaries of State disassociates itself from any involvement in the SERVE controversy
1-28-04: SPRG member Professor Shamos says "There is nothing wrong with the SERVE project"
1-28-04: Fifth Security Peer Review Group member's public comments on SERVE's non-viability render Pentagon "Minority Report" branding null and void
1-24-04: Election Services Corporation, led by top refugees from Accenture/SERVE acquisition, and a defrocked Congressman, provides arguably insecure and certainly uncertified Internet voting services to Michigan Democratic Party caucus voters
1-24-04: Concurring with opinion leader the Latest VotingNews, the New York Times calls on Congress to "suspend" SERVE
1-23-04: SERVE spokesperson says SERVE will be certified, but won't say how
1-22-04: Utah, like the Pentagon, stands fast for SERVE
1-22-04: No white flag above the Pentagon's door, as SERVE spokesperson denies that the program will be terminated
1-21-04: Panel of experts appointed by SERVE's parent agency says "we reluctantly recommend shutting down the development of SERVE immediately"; Pentagon reiterates that it "stands by the SERVE program"
1-19-04: Early e-thePeople returns show voters favoring "Yes on EAC, No on SERVE" 80% to 20%
1-19-04: Yes on EAC, No on SERVE
1-18-04: Fully fund the Election Assistance Commission and stop SERVE now
1-16-04: The Pentagon responds to EAC chief Buster Soaries' statement about SERVE by saying "we stand by the SERVE program"
1-15-04: Buster Soaries, Election Assistance Commission Chair, tells Latest VotingNews exclusively that if the EAC doesn't answer the question of SERVE's non-certification, the agency will have "failed the country"
1-7-04: Washington State and Vermont election officials report different experiences with absentee paper ballots
1-7-04: Non-SERVE states offer a variety of reasons for not participating in the program
1-6-04: Utah likes SERVE
1-5-04: The Latest e-thePeople Poll Results
1-5-04: How Can a Proponent of Remote Internet Voting Want to Shut Down SERVE?
1-5-04: The Empire Strikes Back
1-3-04: SERVE contractors give "It's Not Too Late to Stop SERVE" commentary their frequent and extended attention
1-2-04: Interesting Poll Results Now Available
1-1-04: It's Not Too Late to Stop SERVE
1-1-04: Vote by Mail Slammed in 2 E-thePeople Polls
1-1-04: "Creeping Military Exceptionalism" Poll Surges in e-thePeople Rankings; Opposition Regains 4-to-1 Lead
12-31-03: Oregon elections chief says that lack of privacy in Vote by Mail system is "not a big concern" to Oregonians
12-30-03: An Overwhelming Majority of Voters in the Unscientific and Ongoing e-thePeople Poll Oppose "Creeping Military Exceptionalism"
12-29-03: A Decisive Majority of Voters in the Unscientific and Ongoing e-thePeople Poll Oppose "Creeping Military Exceptionalism"
12-27-03: Early, Unscientific, Returns Show Most e-thePeople Voters Oppose "Creeping Military Exceptionalism"
12-27-03: Creeping Military Exceptionalism Update #1
12-27-03: Creeping Military Exceptionalism as a Factor in Remote Internet Voting
12-21-03: SERVE Certification Poll is Over: More Voters Prefer Updating FVSS Standards than Canceling the Program, but Most Would Allow Pentagon to Self-Certify Its Remote Internet Voting System
12-21-03: SERVE Certification Timeline and an Introduction to FIPS and the Common Criteria
12-20-03: No More Majority for Pentagon Free Ride, A Strong Second Place for Upgrading FVSS to Include Remote Internet Voting Standards for Any Vendor, Scrapping the Program Comes in a Close Third in Unscientific e-thePeople Poll
12-20-03: An Open Letter to the Election Assistance Commission on a Plan for the Certification of Open Source Remote Internet Voting Systems
12-20-03: An Open Letter to Carol Paquette, Director, SERVE
12-17-03: Black Box Voting Activists to SERVE: Get certified or Get out!
12-17-03: How the EAC Can Spend Its Money Most Helpfully
12-17-03: Another Exclusive Latest VotingNews Interview with Allan Eustis, Project Leader of the Voting Standards Team at the National Institute for Standards and Technology
12-16-03: An Exclusive Latest VotingNews Interview with the Organizer of the "Building Trust and Confidence in Voting Systems" at the National Institute of Standards & Technology
12-16-03: Shifting but Substantial Majority in Unscientific E-thePeople Poll Has No Problem with Letting the Designer-Operator Pentagon Certify that its own Remote Internet Voting System (SERVE) is Secure and Accurate
12-15-03: Pentagon Won't Urge Election Assistance Commission to Upgrade Federal Voting Systems Standards to Include SERVE-type Remote Internet Voting; Says Only, "We Intend to Offer a Secure System"
12-13-03: Let's Have Equal Voting Under Law, Not 200,000 Loophole Votes
12-13-03: Final Poll Results on Letting SERVE Collect Votes without Certification is More or Less a Dead Heat
12-12-03: An Exclusive Latest VotingNews Interview with Michael Newman, Spokesperson for the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)
12-12-03: An Exclusive Latest VotingNews Interview with newly-confirmed Election Assistance Commission Commissioner Ray Martinez
12-10-03: The U.S. Election Assistance Commission Now Exists, Along with an Exclusive Latest VotingNews Interview with DeForest "Buster" Soaries, EAC Commissioner
12-10-03: Internet Voting: Voice of the People or Just Another Brick in the Polling Booth?
12-10-03: DoD's Already Had a "Pilot Project" for Internet Voting and SERVE Isn't It
12-10-03: A Majority of an Unscientifically-Selected Group of Online Voters Doesn't Care if SERVE is Certified or Not
12-9-03: Some SERVE States Don't Mind Having Foxes Guard the Voting Henhouse
12-9-03: Questions for and Answers from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Regarding SERVE
12-8-03: Questions for and Answers from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) Regarding SERVE
12-7-03: Questions for and Comments from State SERVE Coordinators
12-7-03: Toeing the Line in the Certification of the SERVE Voting Technology
12-7-03: Estimating the SERVE Vote
12-4-03: Some SERVE Anomalies
12-3-03: David Dill Makes the Case for Verified Voting and Against SERVE
11-28-03: VoteHere Lawsuit Brought and Settled, Details of Settlement Are Not Revealed
11-28-03: A Certified and Open SERVE for Every Voter
11-25-03: ciber will test "voting part" but not "Internet part" of SERVE Internet voting system
11-21-03: Another unscientific poll shows almost half of respondents favor Smart Initiatives
11-21-03: Can SERVE be certified?
11-18-03: Utah Elections Chief discusses SERVE; unscientific e-thePeople poll shows a majority for Internet voting
11-14-03: Datakey president explains CACs; SERVE from DoD; U.S. House of Representatives behind the times in electronic voting
11-13-03: SERVE in Washington State; audit of election systems in California
11-12-03: DNC undecided about SERVE; Washington State Hopes for 10,000 SERVE voters
11-11-03: e-thePeople Internet voting poll and no initiative petition signing allowed using SERVE technology
VoteRemote/e-thePeople poll shows 56% of voters want to be able to vote over the Internet. Click here to see the current standings and vote yourself (only if you haven't voted already, of course).
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE)
Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) Allows US Soldiers, Diplomats and Overseas Residents to Vote on the Internet: An Exclusive Etopia News Interview with Polli Brunelli, Director, Federal Voting Assistance Program at DoD, 11-7-03
Vote Using the Internet in 2004!—The official SERVE web site
Steven Levy in Newsweek on "Black Box Voting Blues"
"Black Box Voting Blues," by Steven Levy from Newsweek on MSNBC, November 3, 2003 issue
Bay Area Lawyers Fight to Block Diebold's "Cease-and-Desist" Crusade
Training Cyberlawyers While Defending Student Civil Liberties Activists: An Exclusive Etopia News Interview with Jennifer Granick, Director, Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Law School, 11-6-03
For the latest news and links about voting technology litigation, visit the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society blogsite (scroll down)
Diebold in the Dock: An Exclusive Etopia News Interview with EFF's Cindy Cohn, 11-5-03
Replacing Human Voting with Fraudulent Votinator Elections
Lynn Landes Indicts Machine Voting, October 21, 2003
Visit Lynn Landes' Website, EcoTalk.org
Touching a Nerve with Touchscreen Voting
Why the California Recall Election May Need to be Stopped
The Place to Buy "Black Box Voting--Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century" by Diebold Foe Bev Harris
Diebold feels the heat. Sends out attack lawyers.
Diebold Won't Debate the Merits of Their Boxes, But They Can Order the Shutdown of Sites that Annoy Them
Avi Rubin at Johns Hopkins Discusses His Recent Examination of Touchscreen Voting Software
The Johns Hopkins Team's "Analysis of an Electronic Voting System"
Diebold Attacks Rubin
The Johns Hopkins Team Responds to Diebold's Self-Defense
Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell Apologizes for Too-Vigorously Supporting President Bush, Promises to Continue His Support in a More Low-Key Way
