2.McKinney's NY Public Officers Law, § 84:
The legislature hereby finds that a free society is maintained when government is responsive and responsible to the public, and when the public is aware of governmental actions. The more open a government is with its citizenry, the greater the understanding and participation of the public in government.
As state and local government services increase and public problems become more sophisticated and complex and therefore harder to solve, and with the resultant increase in revenues and expenditures, it is incumbent upon the state and its localities to extend public accountability wherever and whenever feasible.
The people's right to know the process of governmental decision-making and to review the documents and statistics leading to determinations is basic to our society. Access to such information should not be thwarted by shrouding it with the cloak of secrecy or confidentiality.
The legislature therefore declares that government is the public's business and that the public, individually and collectively and represented by a free press ,should have access to the records of government in accordance with the provisions of this article.
3. McKinney's NY Election Law sec. 7-202 1 (r)
4. I am not advocating for the merits of lever machines which do not leave any evidence of voter intent. I am advocating for not going from the fire into the frying pan and for the need to understand that substituting mechanical lever machines with computerized DREs or PBOSs is not as simple as swapping one machine for another.
5. Bruce O'Dell has spent his career working with very large-scale computer systems with stringent security, audit and accountability requirements-systems for financial accounting, insurance claims processing, mortgage origination, bond trading, stock trading, loan servicing, and on-line financial account aggregation. At American Express he was lead software architect for a project to create a company-wide security component, and received their Chairman's Award for Quality, in 1998, for helping to develop methods for securely deploying new software to networks of thousands of computers. He is also the co-founder of Election Defense Alliance, a national coordinating body which seeks to promote and support citizen activism at the local and state level and to restore integrity and public accountability to the electoral processes of the United States.
6. See, Even a Remote Chance? http://www.votersunite.org/info/EvenARemoteChance.pdf:
Even a 50-state ban of wireless components in elections could be problematic to verify, as technological innovation accelerates. Imagine a memory device about the size of a grain of rice or a freckle, with its own antenna built in, that could be embedded in a sheet of paper or stuck to any surface. Imagine that the device could contain 4 MB of memory which could be accessed or altered wirelessly by a nearby cell phone. Although it sounds like science fiction, this tiny wireless memory chip, called a Memory Spot, was announced July 17, 2006 by Hewlett Packard.
And see sections 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 in the Rebutting Shamos cite referred to above, in which the problem with concealed wireless devices is discussed and consider that Microsoft's operating system, relied on by the vendors', has built-in remote functionality.
7. "Declaration of intent. A continuing problem of a free government is the maintenance among its public servants of moral and ethical standards which are worthy and warrant the confidence of the people. The people are entitled to expect from their public servants a set of standards above the morals of the market place. A public official of a free government is entrusted with the welfare, prosperity, security and safety of the people he serves. In return for this trust, the people are entitled to know that no substantial conflict between private interests and official duties exists in those who serve them."
McKinney's NY Public Officers Law, § 74 (emphasis supplied)
8. Trojan horse software refers to malicious software that can steal entire elections without detection because it is designed to hide or destroy itself after it has done its dirty work, hence the Trojan horse name.
9. The Security and Assurance in Information Technology Laboratory (SAIT) for the State of Florida, reviewing the ES&S DREs which caused the loss of 18,000 missing votes in the last election found:
A cleverly constructed virus can cover its tracks so that infected machines could not be detected by ordinary means and an appropriately programmed virus could self-destruct and erase all its tracks....[I]f carefully constructed, it can allow an attacker to transfer program control to her own malicious code. Once this happens, the attacker controls the machine.
[p 37-38] of February 23, 2007 stu dy at http://election.dos.state.fl.us/pdf/FinalAudRepSAIT.pdf.
10. Interview of Matt Blaze, http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mary_ann_070903_voice_of_the_voters_3a.htm.
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