Here are a couple of interesting articles that have come across my desk. 
Larry Levine

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ACM TechNews
Volume 5, Number 550
Date: September 26, 2003

Top Stories for Friday, September 26, 2003:
http://www.acm.org/technews/current/homepage.html

"Maryland: E-Voting Passes Muster"

A Sept. 24 report from Maryland election officials concluded that
despite a "high risk of compromise," the state has enough
confidence in Diebold Election Systems' touch-screen voting
machines to go ahead with a deal to purchase the machines.  The ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0926f.html#item2


"An Open Invitation to Election Fraud"
Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting," has made it a priority
to uncover the flaws of electronic voting systems, and she
recently published several critical vulnerabilities in Diebold
touch-screen machines that were verified by internal Diebold ...
http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0926f.html#item10