From: rhinoceros (rhinoceros@freemail.gr)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 04:41:23 MDT
E-voting, standards and security
I saw this in Salon (Full article available after clicking on the spam to get an one-day pass)
Another case of electronic vote-tampering?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/09/29/voting_machine_standards/index_np.html
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From its inception, the working group seems to have been heavily represented with people who, if they were not from the voting industry, were at least very sympathetic to the industry's views. Vincent Lipsio, an engineer from Gainesville, Fla., joined the group because he thought it might be fun to work on voting standards. He remembers attending an early meeting and suggesting to the group that the standard should require software on voting machines to be stored on internal read-only drives, rather than on a write-able media like CDs or memory cards. "Well, I remember this old guy stands up and says things like, 'Son, you've got to trust the voting officials,' and 'It's really not necessary to go to all these lengths to protect the machines.' The tone said that I was naïve -- and almost everyone had that attitude."
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There is also a link to an older Salon article (November 2002)
Voting into the void
New touch-screen voting machines may look spiffy, but some experts say they can't be trusted.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/05/voting_machines/
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