Analysis Finds E-Voting Machines Vulnerable
By Andrea Stone
USA Today
Monday 26 June 2006
Washington - Most of the electronic voting machines widely adopted since the disputed 2000 presidential election "pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state and local elections," a report out Tuesday concludes.
There are more than 120 security threats to the three most commonly purchased electronic voting systems, the study by the Brennan Center for Justice says. For what it calls the most comprehensive review of its kind, the New York City-based non-partisan think tank convened a task force of election officials, computer scientists and security experts to study e-voting vulnerabilities.
The study, which took more than a year to complete, examined optical scanners and touch-screen machines with and without paper trails. Together, the three systems account for 80% of the voting machines that will be used in this November's election.
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Barbara Fitzpatrick
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Modern technology updates Stalin's dictem (It doesn't matter who votes, but who counts the votes) - it doesn't matter who votes, but who programs (or hacks into) the voting machines. Corporate America better get on the stick and get rid of these guys. A few more voting machines in strategic areas and the Rs won't need the CEOs anymore. The monster will be running things.
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My opinion is that e-voting can only be secure if the following three conditions are satisfied:
1) The voting software must be open source.
2) The voting client software should run on standard (non-proprietary, plain vanilla, out of the box) computers.
3) Voters should be able to generate their identification signature (encryption/decryption key pair) independently of any outside (esp. government) intervention. E.g. using PGP.
All of us sophisticated freethinkers know how to use PGP, right?
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1) The voting software must be open source.
2) The voting client software should run on standard (non-proprietary, plain vanilla, out of the box) computers.
3) Voters should be able to generate their identification signature (encryption/decryption key pair) independently of any outside (esp. government) intervention. E.g. using PGP.
All of us sophisticated freethinkers know how to use PGP, right?
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You trust the government to monitor elections? The same outfit that gave you suspect past elections and allows secret "proprietary" software in current voting machines?
Don't you think open source - where every mathematician, computer scientist, and poll-watcher in the world can can examine it - is a better way to go?
One reason PGP became the international standard for e-mail encryption is that it is open source, so there is extremely high confidence that no shenanigans is going on.
Don't you think open source - where every mathematician, computer scientist, and poll-watcher in the world can can examine it - is a better way to go?
One reason PGP became the international standard for e-mail encryption is that it is open source, so there is extremely high confidence that no shenanigans is going on.
"May the the last king be strangled in the guts of the last priest." - Diderot
With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. - Ingersoll
With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty. - Ingersoll