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By Rady Ananda (about the author)
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* Failed to catch numerous security defects found by academics, industry consultants and interested outsiders.
The 2005 VVSG standards contain significant shortcomings regarding the security, reliability, and auditability of electronic voting:
* ITAs are paid by the vendors whose systems they are evaluating, raising conflicts of interest between the voting public and client-vendors;
* The process lacks transparency, rendering effective public oversight difficult or impossible;
* Technical information about voting systems is often considered proprietary and secret by vendors, and voting system source code is generally not available to independent experts. In the rare cases where independent experts have been able to gain access to source code, they have discovered reliability and security problems;
* Testing is too lax to ensure the machines are secure, reliable, and trustworthy.
* Many standards in the requirements appear to be ignored during ITA testing;
* If serious flaws are discovered in a voting system after it has been approved, there is no mechanism to decertify the flawed system.
FURTHER READING
Author's relevant pieces:
A colorful, 2-sided flyer summarizing the above points can be found at http://tinyurl.com/kwycu
"DREs, Magic and Other Sleights of Hand," Jan. 2007, Recount Observations and Signature Audit of Franklin County, Ohio Nov. 7 2007 Election. http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/2321.pdf
Parallel Election Executive Summary (Nov. 14, 2006) posted at http://tinyurl.com/y4lh8l
Nov 06 Franklin County, Ohio Parallel Election results posted at http://tinyurl.com/yhj8cf
Become a Fan (2 fans) -- Page 10 of 10 page(s)
The 2005 VVSG standards contain significant shortcomings regarding the security, reliability, and auditability of electronic voting:
* ITAs are paid by the vendors whose systems they are evaluating, raising conflicts of interest between the voting public and client-vendors;
* The process lacks transparency, rendering effective public oversight difficult or impossible;
* Technical information about voting systems is often considered proprietary and secret by vendors, and voting system source code is generally not available to independent experts. In the rare cases where independent experts have been able to gain access to source code, they have discovered reliability and security problems;
* Testing is too lax to ensure the machines are secure, reliable, and trustworthy.
* Many standards in the requirements appear to be ignored during ITA testing;
* If serious flaws are discovered in a voting system after it has been approved, there is no mechanism to decertify the flawed system.
FURTHER READING
Author's relevant pieces:
A colorful, 2-sided flyer summarizing the above points can be found at http://tinyurl.com/kwycu
"DREs, Magic and Other Sleights of Hand," Jan. 2007, Recount Observations and Signature Audit of Franklin County, Ohio Nov. 7 2007 Election. http://www.freepress.org/images/departments/2321.pdf
Parallel Election Executive Summary (Nov. 14, 2006) posted at http://tinyurl.com/y4lh8l
Nov 06 Franklin County, Ohio Parallel Election results posted at http://tinyurl.com/yhj8cf
In 2004, Rady Ananda joined the growing community of citizen journalists. Initially focused on elections, she investigated the 2004 Ohio election, organizing, training and leading several forays into counties to photograph the 2004 ballots. She officially served at three recounts, including the 2004 recount. She also organized and led the team that audited Franklin County Ohio's 2006 election, proving the number of voter signatures did not match official results. Her work appears in three books.
Her blogs also address religious, gender, sexual and racial equality, as well as environmental issues; and are sprinkled with book and film reviews on various topics. She spent most of her working life as a researcher or investigator for private lawyers, and five years as an editor.
She graduated from The Ohio State University's School of Agriculture in December 2003 with a B.S. in Natural Resources.
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Hand Count Paper Ballots
by Michael Richardson on Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 3:56:08 PM
I would add...
by Charlie L on Thursday, Jan 18, 2007 at 6:20:23 PM