The Voting News Weekly: TVN Weekly October 24-30 2011
Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill hosted a panel discussion on online voting that included numerous computer security experts. Anomalies in a Democratic County Committee election have exposed the unreliability and insecurity of electronic voting systems. The South Carolina League of Women Voters is fighting to replace the state’s touchscreen voting machines. An 86-year-old World War II veteran was forced to pay for his “free” voter ID in Tennessee. The South Korean Election Commission was hit with a cyber attack during a municipal election. McCleans posted an editorial on proposed internet voting in Canada. Los Angeles County recorder/auditor Dean Logan has teamed with California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to survey more than 1,000 voters, more than 1,000 poll workers, 26 city clerks from across the county and 64 staffers in Logan’s office about the county’s voting system overhaul. Thousands demonstrated in Morocco calling for a boycott of early parliamentary polls next month whose outcome will be key to the future of reforms crafted by the royal palace while Tunisia held the first election resulting from the “Arab Spring.”