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
"Of course Diebold and Microsoft are fighting it. Secretary of State Debra
Bowen supports the bill."
http://technocrat.net/d/2007/8/6/24284
We have already seen Microsoft twisting arms (bullying) New York over this. It
has already been shown that the voting machines are broken by design. This was
even proven scientifically recently.
Related:
E-voting vendor succumbs to California source code demands
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| "... there are serious concerns regarding the motivations and apparent
| personal agendas of a number of the currently proposed examiners," ES&S
| exec StevenPearson wrote in a letter agreeing to turn over the source
| code.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/28/evoting_source_code_disclosure/
John Edwards supports "open source" for voting systems
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| John Edwards has become the first presidential candidate to support
| "open source code" for election systems.
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http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2662#3258828628252476494
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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