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By Rady Ananda (about the author)
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Government Accountability Office, 2005, Elections: Federal Efforts to Improve Security and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems Are Under Way, but Key Activities Need to Be Completed http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf
Harry Hursti, Black Box Report Security Alert: July 4, 2005 Critical Security Issues with Diebold Optical Scan Design (1.94w), 2005, http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf
International Parliamentary Union, Free & Fair Elections, 2006
http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/Free&Fair06-e.pdf
Rebecca Mercuri, PhD., focused on electronic vote tabulating since 1989, Affidavit filed in Squire v. Geer, Franklin County (Ohio) Court of Appeals, 06APD-12-1285.
OSCE – Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 2005, Election Observation Manual, 17 Criteria for a Fair Vote Count (p. 62) http://www.osce.org/publications/odihr/2005/04/14004_240_en.pdf
Princeton Study: Feldman, Ariel J., J.A. Halderman, and E.W. Felten, "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine," Center for Information Technology Policy and Dept. of Computer Science, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2006. http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting
RABA Technologies LLC. Trusted Agent Report: Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System (report prepared for Department of Legislative Services, Maryland General Assembly, Annapolis, Md., January 2004). http://www.raba.com/press/TA_Report_AccuVote.pdf
Aviel Rubin, News article: "On My Mind: Pull The Plug," Forbes Magazine, 8/2006 http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/040.html?partner=alerts&_requestid=2972
U.S. Commission on Federal Election Reform, 2006. News article: "Reversing Course on Electronic Voting: Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2006.
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David Wagner, Ph.D., Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley. Written Testimony before the Committee on Science and Committee on House Administration U.S. House of Representatives, July 19, 2006.
ANNOTATIONS
BRENNAN CENTER, The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World, 2006 http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/Full%20Report.pdf
Studied 3 voting systems by type: DRE, DRE w/VVPAT, and Optical Scan. Brennan identified 120 vulnerability points.
Report is limited to identifying the least difficult way to alter results on a statewide basis. It is also limited to studying attacks that cannot be prevented by physical security and accounting measures taken by election officials. The analysis further assumed that certain fundamental physical security and accounting procedures were already in place.
Concluded that it would take only one person, with a sophisticated technical knowledge and timely access to the software that runs the voting machines, to change the outcome.
All three voting systems have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities, which pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state, and local elections.
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Harry Hursti, Black Box Report Security Alert: July 4, 2005 Critical Security Issues with Diebold Optical Scan Design (1.94w), 2005, http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf
International Parliamentary Union, Free & Fair Elections, 2006
http://www.ipu.org/PDF/publications/Free&Fair06-e.pdf
Rebecca Mercuri, PhD., focused on electronic vote tabulating since 1989, Affidavit filed in Squire v. Geer, Franklin County (Ohio) Court of Appeals, 06APD-12-1285.
OSCE – Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, 2005, Election Observation Manual, 17 Criteria for a Fair Vote Count (p. 62) http://www.osce.org/publications/odihr/2005/04/14004_240_en.pdf
Princeton Study: Feldman, Ariel J., J.A. Halderman, and E.W. Felten, "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine," Center for Information Technology Policy and Dept. of Computer Science, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2006. http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting
RABA Technologies LLC. Trusted Agent Report: Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting System (report prepared for Department of Legislative Services, Maryland General Assembly, Annapolis, Md., January 2004). http://www.raba.com/press/TA_Report_AccuVote.pdf
Aviel Rubin, News article: "On My Mind: Pull The Plug," Forbes Magazine, 8/2006 http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/0904/040.html?partner=alerts&_requestid=2972
U.S. Commission on Federal Election Reform, 2006. News article: "Reversing Course on Electronic Voting: Some Former Backers of Technology Seek Return to Paper Ballots, Citing Glitches, Fraud Fears," Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2006.
click here
David Wagner, Ph.D., Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley. Written Testimony before the Committee on Science and Committee on House Administration U.S. House of Representatives, July 19, 2006.
ANNOTATIONS
BRENNAN CENTER, The Machinery of Democracy: Protecting Elections in an Electronic World, 2006 http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/Full%20Report.pdf
Studied 3 voting systems by type: DRE, DRE w/VVPAT, and Optical Scan. Brennan identified 120 vulnerability points.
Report is limited to identifying the least difficult way to alter results on a statewide basis. It is also limited to studying attacks that cannot be prevented by physical security and accounting measures taken by election officials. The analysis further assumed that certain fundamental physical security and accounting procedures were already in place.
Concluded that it would take only one person, with a sophisticated technical knowledge and timely access to the software that runs the voting machines, to change the outcome.
All three voting systems have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities, which pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state, and local elections.
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