Here's our post to Greg Gordon's article in today's McClatchy Newspapers.
Cassandra has been chanting...we're beginning to listen. If "bugs" could not be detected and if they could result in thousands of votes being dropped, isn't it fair to assume that malicious code would also not be detected?
And don't be fooled that it's only touch screen systems that are vulnerable.
And if malicious code is not detected, couldn't our enemies try to undermine our very system of democracy...not by putting in a "dupe" but by making us lose faith in our democratic institutions?
Aren't these the Geeks bearing gifts that Cassandra has been chanting about?
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An Election Insider's Nightmare
An Election Insider's Nightmare
I'M TOO YOUNG TO HAVE MY VOTE STOLEN
In March, Bree Barton published an op-ed in USA Today on her fears and hopes as a young voter. Now you can follow Bree on her firsttime journey to the ballot box. Read "Bree Barton at the Ballot Box" in the Dallas Morning News. Click here.
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DATA
"Most public voices have been anxious to dismiss out of hand any inquiry into the possibility of a corrupted vote count. But absence of scrutiny does not make a democracy function; democratic processes do.
...[T]he only way to maintain democracy or unite a people is to ensure that election probity is beyond question."
From the preface to Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count, by Steve Freeman, Joel Bleifuss. Available from Amazon.com Used with permission.
...[T]he only way to maintain democracy or unite a people is to ensure that election probity is beyond question."
From the preface to Was the 2004 Presidential Election Stolen?: Exit Polls, Election Fraud, and the Official Count, by Steve Freeman, Joel Bleifuss. Available from Amazon.com Used with permission.
Was It Heard?
"…[W]e demonstrate that the insider threat is also quite considerable, showing that not only can an insider … modify the votes, but that insiders can also violate voter privacy and match votes with the voters who cast them."
Quoted from Analysis of an Electronic Voting System ; February 27, 2007 by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin And Dan S. Wallach.(http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf ). Used with permission.
Quoted from Analysis of an Electronic Voting System ; February 27, 2007 by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin And Dan S. Wallach.(http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf ). Used with permission.
Prophecy
“To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening.”
Margaret Mead: Culture and Commitment
Margaret Mead: Culture and Commitment
"All computer systems are subject to subtle errors. Moreover, computer systems can be deliberately corrupted at any stage of their design, manufacture, and use. The methods used to do this can be extremely difficult to foresee and detect."
Quoted "Resolution on Electronic Voting" posted on http://www.verifiedvoting.org/, the website of The Verified Voting Foundation, Prof. David L. Dill, Founder and Board Director. Used with permission.
Quoted "Resolution on Electronic Voting" posted on http://www.verifiedvoting.org/, the website of The Verified Voting Foundation, Prof. David L. Dill, Founder and Board Director. Used with permission.
Voters Unite!
Cassandra, Chanting isn't only "an election insider's nightmare" about a "race against the clock to uncover the high-tech complexities of a plot to fix the outcome of the election" (as the book's jacket promises). It's a well-presented and readable integration of many of the complex, interwoven forces that enable, support, and foster the disease that presently besets our election system.
---Comment by Ellen Theisen, Voters Unite. Used with permission.
---Comment by Ellen Theisen, Voters Unite. Used with permission.
Hanging Chad
Image from website, http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/chad.html ; Douglas W. Jones; THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science. Used with permission.
2 comments:
I live in Bradenton Florida and we have paper ballots. In order to ensure my vote counts I will make my election choices and then with their marker I will write through the lines on the top header and bottom footer of my ballot, "MY VOTE WILL COUNT." When I insert my ballot into the ballot machine it will reject my vote. It will then be placed in a locked ballot box to be hand read. I will follow that ballot box to the election office and make sure it gets there. Next, a 'determination team', comprised of one democrat, one republican and one independent will read and record my vote correctly. Each member will sign and certify the correctness of my vote. This method will not work for other types of voting machines without paper trails. Though hand counting costs more, my vote is priceless. Recounts and lawsuits cost much more. I will continue to spread the word in order to avoid another repeat of Floriduh....For more information log onto manateegov.com. Then click on 'other gov', then 'supervisor of elections. The phone number is (941) 741-3823. The supervisor's name is Bob Sweat. It is against the law to 'corruptly influence votes, However, I am only 'correctly' influencing my vote since government cannot, because they are a bunch of corrupt, handholding good ol' boys with ties to election software and ballot machine companies… Please let me know what you think.
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No legal advice here, just a comment that if you mark your ballot in a certain way that you can detect then it's not a "secret ballot."
Some states, California at least, do not allow for any unique identifying marks on a ballot. But then, California's requirement seems bizarre since anytime a voter enters a write-in candidate, that voter would have made a unique identifying mark.
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