Posted on 03/16/2019 10:50:27 PM PDT by thecodont
For years security professionals and election integrity activists have been pushing voting machine vendors to build more secure and verifiable election systems, so voters and candidates can be assured election outcomes haven’t been manipulated.
Now they might finally get this thanks to a new $10 million contract the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking.
The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an Oregon-based firm called Galois, a longtime government contractor with experience in designing secure and verifiable systems. The system will use fully open source voting software, instead of the closed, proprietary software currently used in the vast majority of voting machines, which no one outside of voting machine testing labs can examine. More importantly, it will be built on secure open source hardware, made from special secure designs and techniques developed over the last year as part of a special program at DARPA. The voting system will also be designed to create fully verifiable and transparent results so that voters don’t have to blindly trust that the machines and election officials delivered correct results.
But DARPA and Galois won’t be asking people to blindly trust that their voting systems are secure—as voting machine vendors currently do. Instead they’ll be publishing source code for the software online and bring prototypes of the systems to the Def Con Voting Village this summer and next, so that hackers and researchers will be able to freely examine the systems themselves and conduct penetration tests to gauge their security. They’ll also be working with a number of university teams over the next year to have them examine the systems in formal test environments.
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Bull crap! Assume ALL voting machines are potentially not secure and are subject to manipulation. ALWAYS have paper ballots that can be audited when/where necessary.
I don’t care what they say. I wouldn’t trust this system one bit. What I trust are all the old manual systems that have not had all of there checks and balances removed.
Of course none of it does any good if you don’t verify who is actually voting.
Bump for later.
NSA will give final approval.
Okay ... do a bunch of stuff electronically, but always have the initial paper ballot. That’s essential.
as long as it has paper receipts and publishes all votes to a public block chain... then your vote can be verified and the chain can be checked against any tampering
So the same people who tap our phones, track our lives through Facebook, and police the Internet through fronts that purport to spot “fake news” also want to secure our voting system—goodie, I feel more secure already. /s
Nothing to worry about. Eventually, just lean in that forehead or extended that right hand to be scanned and identified by the system.
Works great for buying and selling.
No, we’re not there just yet.
A project like this needs someone in charge who is universally trusted with a sterling reputation, like Robert Mueller. /s
Oregon-based firm called Galois, a longtime government contractor
This in itself says volumes
Doesn’t matter how secure the voting is - it matters who counts the votes.
If FR had one, I'd give your post a 
It doesn’t matter how “secure” it is, if non citizens get to vote, if people vote multiple times due to multiple residences, or if others vote for the elderly.
I can make you win, but it will cost you.
It matters who counts the votes, but also who is allowed to vote, and how many “absentee “ votes are allowed to be manufactured.
Yep.
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