BS: Thank you, Joan, for providing me with this opportunity to discuss the ultimate form of voter disenfranchisement, namely that the voter gets to the polls (or votes over the internet), casts his or her ballot, and then that ballot is not counted or is counted incorrectly.
Well said, Barbara. I couldn't agree more. Thanks again.
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Barbara Simons published Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count?, a book on voting machines coauthored with Douglas Jones. She has served on the Board of Advisors of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission since her appointment in 2008. She co-authored the report that led to the cancellation of Department of Defense's Internet voting project (SERVE) in 2004 because of security concerns. She also co-authored the July 2015 report of the U.S. Vote Foundation entitled The Future of Voting: Endto-End Verifiable Internet Voting, which included in its conclusions that "every publicly audited, commercial Internet voting system to date is fundamentally insecure". Simons is Board Chair of Verified Voting.
Verified Voting website
Broken Ballots: Will Your Vote Count? (Center for the Study of Language and Information) Paperback [June 1, 2012], by Douglas W. Jones and Barbara Simons
*my abovementioned interview with Roger Johnston: Argonne Lab's Head of Vulnerability Assessment Team Disses Election Security 3.29.2011
**Hacking Democracy website
Hacking Democracy YouTube trailer - just two minutes long
***Read about Halderman's team's hack-by-invitation of the Washington DC internet election system:
NY Times: Voting Test Falls Victim to Hackers
Cover story of November 22, 2015, issue of Bloomberg Businessweek, "Data Drip: Hacking Hospitals: The devices that can save your life - or steal your identity"
Hacking Hospitals video
Hackers have personnel data on every U.S. federal employee: Four million past and present workers affected by Chinese breach, AP, June 11, 2015
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