Florida E-Voting Study
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| Florida just recently released another study of the Diebold voting
| machines.
|
| [...
|
| Right. These are classic examples of problems that can arise if (1) you "roll
| your own" crypto and/or (2) employ "find and patch" rather than a principled
| approach to security.
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http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/08/florida_evoting.html
They could get real and established solution from SourceForge, if only they
were open source.
Electoral Commission releases e-voting and e-counting reports
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| The Commission’s criticism of e-counting and e-voting was scathing;
| concerning the latter saying that the “security risk involved was significant
| and unacceptable.”
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http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2007/08/02/electoral-commission-releases-e-voting-and-e-counting-reports/
http://tinyurl.com/2uluor
Very recent:
End the secrecy of electronic voting
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| We have no opportunity to determine whether electronic voting machines are
| properly programmed to record and count our votes -- merely because the
| corporate vendors of these machines insist on keeping their programming
| "source code" a trade secret.
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http://www.contracostatimes.com/opinion/ci_6550239?nclick_check=1
Related:
Microsoft Muscles the NYS Legislature
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| Microsoft’s proposed change to state law would effectively render
| our current requirements for escrow and the ability for independent
| review of source code in the event of disputes completely meaningless
| - and with it the protections the public fought so hard for.
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http://nyvv.org/blog/bolipariblog.html
Halt e-voting, says election body
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| Despite the commission saying security needed to be "strengthened", Mr Will
| said: "We are pleased that the evaluations point to a high level of system
| security and user confidence in e-voting systems tested and that the security
| and integrity of the polls was not compromised.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6926625.stm
Most vote machines lose test to hackers
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| "The vendors appeared to have designed systems that were not high assurance
| (of security)," said Bishop, a recognized expert on computer security. "The
| security seems like it was added on.''
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/VOTING.TMP&tsp=1
State legislators keep e-voting apps in public hands
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| Microsoft, whose Windows software is used in some of the vendors' devices,
| sought to amend the law to avoid the strict escrow provisions.
|
| [...]
|
| But Lipari had his worries before the matter was resolved. Earlier
| this month, in his blog, he called Microsoft the "800-pound gorilla
| of software development" as he called attention to its plans. Microsoft,
| he said, had been steadily lobbying legislators and circulating an
| unsigned document that would redefine the law.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/062507-state-legislators-keep-e-voting-apps.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
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| "Nineteen machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a
| blue screen and messages about an "illegal operation" or a "fatal
| exception error."
|
| "Especially with this blue-screen problem, you don't know whether it's
| the printer drivers, you don't know whether it's Diebold's own code or
| whether it's Windows,"
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http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6257
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
|
| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
| a complex environment]...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
|
| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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