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Thousands of Iranian Gmail Users Targeted in Attempted Hacks Before Election

Thousands of Gmail account users in Iran have been targeted in phishing attacks intended to influence the country's national election, Google announced today.

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Thursday, June 13th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Pirate Party Iceland Now Has a Seat in Parliament

The Icelandic Pirate Party has managed to gain as many as three seats in the recent national election after securing an impressive 5.1 per cent of the vote. This is the first time that...

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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 Net News No Comments

E-voting chaos: NJ voters sent to official’s personal Hotmail address

Security experts warned that New Jersey's plan for e-mail-based voting was a recipe for problems, and anecdotal evidence is starting to trickle in that the system isn't working as well as organizers had hoped....

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Tuesday, November 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Paper prophets: Why e-voting is on the decline in the United States

Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Ernest Zirkle was puzzled. The resident of Fairfield Township in Cumberland County, NJ, ran for a seat on his local Democratic Executive Committee on June 7, 2011. The official...

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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

New Election System Promises to Help Catch Voting-Machine Problems

When voting system activists in the U.S. managed to get many paperless electronic voting machines replaced a few years ago with optical-scan machines that use paper ballots, some believed elections would become more...

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Thursday, October 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments