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PARC Forum 11/13: The Battle for Accountability in Election Systems
PARC - Palo Alto Research Center, via email ^ | 6 Nov 03 | David L. Dill

Posted on 11/06/2003 10:44:41 AM PST by null and void

Information about the PARC Forum and directions to PARC are available at:
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The Battle for Accountability in Election Systems
David L. Dill
Stanford University
Computer Science Department

Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory, where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots, once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these machines?

Last December, I drafted a "Resolution on Electronic Voting" stating that every voting system should have a "voter verifiable audit trail," which is a permanent record of the vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter, and which is saved for a recount if it is required. After many rewrites, I posted the page in January with endorsements from many prominent computer scientists. At that point, I became embroiled in a surprisingly fierce (and time consuming) battle that continues today. (See www.verifiedvoting.org for the resolution and much more information on electronic voting.)

We still don't have an answer for why we should trust electronic voting machines, but a lot of evidence has emerged for why we should NOT. In this talk, I will discuss the basic technical issues with electronic voting and describe some of the major events of the last 10 months.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; electionfraud; electronicfraud; electronicvoting; recount; touchscreenvoting; votefraud
Thought this might be of interest to FReepers...
1 posted on 11/06/2003 10:44:42 AM PST by null and void
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To: martin_fierro
Please ping the usual Silicon Valley suspects...
2 posted on 11/06/2003 10:45:34 AM PST by null and void
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To: null and void
Cross-link:

-The Vote Fraud Archives--

3 posted on 11/06/2003 10:53:56 AM PST by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into the Sunset...)
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To: null and void
Even the lamestream media has started to report around the edges of this story. Track down the Diebolt files and read them while you can, they're doing their best to hide the story rather than answer the questions it raises.
4 posted on 11/06/2003 11:41:50 AM PST by steve50
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To: null and void
Just because it's computerized doesn't mean it's better.

No voter audit trail = voter disenfranchisement.

BUMP!
5 posted on 11/06/2003 12:25:19 PM PST by jimkress (America has become Soviet Union Lite)
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To: null and void
Hard copy voting is the best solution. Computers are great for many things. I should know since I've worked with them for 30 years.

However, elections are far too important to leave to a system that supports the posibility of undetectable voter fraud.
6 posted on 11/06/2003 12:29:54 PM PST by jimkress (America has become Soviet Union Lite)
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7 posted on 11/06/2003 12:56:09 PM PST by martin_fierro (_____oooo_(_°_¿_°_)_oooo_____)
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To: martin_fierro
Isn't that the Woz museum on the left?
8 posted on 11/06/2003 1:14:39 PM PST by EggsAckley (..........................God Bless and Keep Terri.....................)
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To: EggsAckley
No that's The Tech.

The Woz museum is purple...
9 posted on 11/06/2003 3:48:33 PM PST by null and void
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