(Electronic-Voting) Using a computer-based machine to display an election ballot and record the vote. E-voting machines typically use touch screens as the data entry method for a voter's...
no encryption is good enough...Considering the power the US President has to shape US and World Policy, I think EVERYONE will be gunning to crack that nut.Enemies will try to get the worst/weakest candidate. Allies will try to get the guy who most loves them into power. Business...
Even where I live voter turnout is pathetic! Barely 60% of eligible voters did so! We are even given allowances of up to 4 hours away from work by law to go vote. It’s mandatory in 19 countries - Brazil and Australia are noteworthy. by Doug Hanchard
In reviewing my predictions for 2008 I find no room to doubt my own genius - at least in my head; "your mileage", as they say " may differ"... by Paul Murphy
GOP gearing up legal attack on e-voting machinesHmmmmm....I wonder if they'll be contesting the results in precincts where they came out ahead. Ya think?Why win when you can steal an election.Why lead when you can terrify your people into voting you in again.This is just evidence of how backwards...
According to TPM Muckraker and this press release, the Republican National Committee is lining up the computer forensics firm Forensicon to provide analysis on e-voting machines to form the basis of a legal attack against the validity of the 2008 presidential election. Briefly,...
Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft Big Brains: Brad Lovering Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all...
Will e-voting machines tilt the election?RE: Will e-voting machines tilt the election?First the reported problems are far more widespread than Tennessee and West Virginia. The e-voting systems are being reported as having the similar issues nationwide and even with different manufactures.See http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6616The behavior being reported is hardly the type of...
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 24 months, you should be well aware that tomorrow millions of Americans will be going to the polls to select their representative, one-third of their senators, and the next president. In general, Americans have become wary of the...
If you're out to commit election fraud the vulnerabiity of present evoting machines makes that route look attractive, but in reality success will only get you a few votes. To really cheat effectively, you need to after the opportunities the use of client-server technologies creates in the voting process...
Parts of a system: beyond the e-voting caseGreater than what...."Server virtualization (in the PC/IBM sense of hosting multiple equivalent OS instances on one machine), for example, is extraordinarily popular right now and can definitely reduce data center cost - but almost always does so at greater cost to the business...
One of the questions raised by our recent discussion of e-voting options is how far the IT myopia revealed there permeates our other IT activities: to what extent, in other words, is the presence of an obvious IT component likely to blind us to the rest of the system? by...
Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...
To make e-voting work you need a voting machine that can't be corrupted without setting off alarms - Sun Rays fit that requirement, are cheap, and allow for easy central auditing. by Paul Murphy
Dancing on E-voting's graveAgreed - but consider the slippery slopeBecause once you recognized the problem in kind, you ended up arguing (accurately, I think) about degree.Why client-server can't workBecause the expert has to say "yes" to the question in court - no matter how difficult or impractical it may actually...
Any application, including e-voting applications, that run on programmable gear in user hands can be subverted. It may generally be difficult, the bad guys may usually get caught, but no auditor can ever prove that it has not been done - and that's why most states are now throwing away...
While the arguments still rage between the proponents for paper voting systems and those of electronic voting systems, little has been said to refute the high cost of current computerized systems. The state of Maryland switched from an optical scan system to a Diebold touchscreen system in the year 2003...
Email voting for overseas troops?So what's wrong with absentee ballots?I'm under the distinct impression that mail call is still a major part of military life. I think it's even still possible to send US mail out of war zones.A couple of more comments1. The Australian ballot, if my...
The Pentagon is pushing states to allow email balloting for troops overseas but so far few states are playing along, AP reports. "The personnel that fight our wars, the people who are most affected by the decisions on the use of the military, are being...
The client-server idea goes back at least to the early 1960s and was, at least initially, a fairly direct extension of hardware co-processor ideas already in wide use throughout the industry. Thus the vision going into the IBM Future Systems project in 1968 was simple: build future...
eVoting systems come under fireNot truly independent review...I'm sorry, but if Sequoia is hiring the outside vendor to conduct the audit, then the external parties' independence is already suspect.State vs FedRunning elections is a State power. I am always leery of stealing power from the Sates and moving it...
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