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Started by bearclaw
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:38
Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Author: bearclaw
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:38
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 04:38
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Some goober recently challenged the notion that electronic voting machines are-- at best-- prone to hacking, glitches and misuse, both intentional and accidental. Here is a rather startling, not to say frightening, analysis of one e-voting machine, from Princeton University: http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ The full research paper is available for download in .pdf at the website.
Re: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Author: bonitakale
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:44
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:44
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote: > Some goober recently challenged the notion that electronic voting > machines are-- at best-- prone to hacking, glitches and misuse, both > intentional and accidental. > > Here is a rather startling, not to say frightening, analysis of one > e-voting machine, from Princeton University: > > http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ > > The full research paper is available for download in .pdf at the website. Yes, very false frugality to move to computers at the expense of trust. Bonita
Re: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Author: bonitakale
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:44
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 18:44
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote: > Some goober recently challenged the notion that electronic voting > machines are-- at best-- prone to hacking, glitches and misuse, both > intentional and accidental. > > Here is a rather startling, not to say frightening, analysis of one > e-voting machine, from Princeton University: > > http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ > > The full research paper is available for download in .pdf at the website. Yes, very false frugality to move to computers at the expense of trust. Bonita
Re: Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine
Author: Billzz
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:29
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 00:29
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<bonitakale@netscape.net> wrote in message news:1158432285.605092.321890@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... > > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote: >> Some goober recently challenged the notion that electronic voting >> machines are-- at best-- prone to hacking, glitches and misuse, both >> intentional and accidental. >> >> Here is a rather startling, not to say frightening, analysis of one >> e-voting machine, from Princeton University: >> >> http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ >> >> The full research paper is available for download in .pdf at the website. > > Yes, very false frugality to move to computers at the expense of trust. > > Bonita I grew up in Boston where "Hizzoner" James Michael Curley was re-elected to be the mayor while he was in federal jail for income tax evasion. A very fine Irish-American elderly lady was interviewed on the radio as how she could vote for a crook. She huffed, "Well, he may be a crook, but he's OUR crook." Meaning that she would always vote for the Irish Catholic Democrat as opposed to the English Protestant Republicans who had recently lost the demographic battle. If anyone remembers the 1960 election, and the resultant stories about the Chicago vote, then something becomes apparent. The Democrats do not want a machine to count votes because they think that the Republicans will *fix* it. The Republicans already think that the Democrats have *fixed* the people that count the votes. We don't actually need any more automation that we currently have. We already take a credit card, and a code, to an ATM and get cash - which is a highly secure environment. Just use that network to vote. A credit card is a better ID than the driver's license (which is easily forged) used now, at least in California - where I am. I'll bet neither party wants a system that *cannot* be fixed.
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