[boris]

He who controls the count controls the vote. 'Nuff said.

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[Lexington Green]

Every intelligence service in the world, and lots of hackers, are going to work diligently to rig our computer voting results.

[Travis McGee]

"Road to Civil War" ping.

[mvpel]

"It's hard to track down a problem when you go out to your car and the first time it starts, the next time the headlights don't work, the next time you start it the brakes are out, and the next time you start it the door falls off," Behler said. "That's really the way they were."

Sounds like they're running the software on Windows.

[Pest]

I thought we weren't supposed to post articles from Wired.

[bandleader]

Electronic Voting sounds like the best thing since The Honorable Richard J.Daley got Chicago's DEAD to vote!!!

[Lunatic Fringe]

Electronic voting machines should only be tools to PRINT a completed ballot. It should not be used to submit electronic ballots.

BTW, what is wrong with this statement:

It was the first time an incumbent governor had not won his second term since Georgia law allowed back-to-back terms in 1978.

[irv]

As for Behler, Williams said he's a disgruntled employee

Does somebody write a script that all beleagured companies use? I mean, this line was so predictable it's pathetic!

[Darksheare]

Interesting.
The RATS pushed for electronic voting, then flaws were found in it.
Wonder how long it will be until they scream that the vote was rigged electronically?

[Lefty-NiceGuy]

Regarding electronic voting there is an security technique "Blinded Certificates" which works similar to RSA, but lets you do some pretty cool things regarding elections.

Here's how it works:
1) I make out my ballot in a standard format.
2) I blind the it.
3) I give it to authority A and identify myself
4) He checks that I've voted only once and signs it.
5) I unblind it.
6) I turn it in annoymously to authority B via drop-box or onion routing.
7) Authority B knows A has certified this ballot.
8) The unblinded ballots can be published in the paper on or on the web.
ANYONE CAN RECOUNT THEM.
NOBODY KNOWS WHO VOTED WHAT

We have the technology to do this. The main problem is that people have to use thier own trusted computer to ensure security isn't broken, since anyone can create a device that looks like it's letting you vote and then does something else.

I know Germany and Canada just use plain simple check off ballots, and count the things quicker then we do. Many people who were at first excited about electronic voting say we should just get back to the basics.

[Lefty-NiceGuy]

Regarding electronic voting there is an security technique "Blinded Certificates" which works similar to RSA, but lets you do some pretty cool things regarding elections.

Here's how it works:
1) I make out my ballot in a standard format.
2) I blind the it.
3) I give it to authority A and identify myself
4) He checks that I've voted only once and signs it.
5) I unblind it.
6) I turn it in annoymously to authority B via drop-box or onion routing.
7) Authority B knows A has certified this ballot.
8) The unblinded ballots can be published in the paper on or on the web.
ANYONE CAN RECOUNT THEM.
NOBODY KNOWS WHO VOTED WHAT

We have the technology to do this. The main problem is that people have to use thier own trusted computer to ensure security isn't broken, since anyone can create a device that looks like it's letting you vote and then does something else.

I know Germany and Canada just use plain simple check off ballots, and count the things quicker then we do. Many people who were at first excited about electronic voting say we should just get back to the basics.

[Doctor Stochastic]

The newsgroup comp.risks has more. See Google or us a news reader. Below is the link to message 22.95; message 22.94 has stuff too but isn't in Google yet.


http://groups.google.com/groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=comp.risks&selm=CMM.0.90.4.1065824799.risko%40chiron.csl.sri.com