Internet Voting

USA Today: Electronic voting – The Real Threat

By Luther Weeks on September 22, 2012

Fortunately our Legislature has not wasted time on raising Connecticut’s adequate voter I.D. law to the level of voter suppression. Unfortunately, the Legislature has continued to ignore science, experience, and the Constitutional requirement for preserving the secret vote.

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Electronic Voting Debate Continues – Defying Science and History

By Luther Weeks on September 15, 2012

Computer Scientists say safe Internet voting is impossible, unless unanticipated theoretical discoveries are made.

The World is not round*, leeches are not medically useful, electronic only voting and Internet voting cannot be made safe for the foreseeable future.

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Canadian election disrupted in broad daylight

By Luther Weeks on August 12, 2012

What value is an attack that everyone sees? That depends. Courts have been reluctant to grant re-votes, for good reasons. Results of a vote can depend strongly on the other races and issues on a ballot, get out the vote efforts, and even the weather.

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What can the F.D.A. teach us about Officials, Internet voting, and Computer voting?

By Luther Weeks on July 16, 2012

Vast, easy spying capabilities. No technical expertise required. The possibilities are endless. Votes, voters, spouses, lawyers, business opponents, employees, bosses, officials, candidates, campaigns, investigators, and auditors can be monitored by practically anyone. Will the perpetrators be brought to justice?

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Governor vetoes bill with email/fax voting “rat”

By Luther Weeks on June 16, 2012

Such rats risk bills being occasionally vetoed, yet more often fuel criticism of the the Legislature and serve to make citizens disgusted with Government in general.

I do not support any mechanism of voting that would require an individual to waive his or her constitutional rights in order to cast a timely, secret ballot, even if such waiver is voluntary…allowing an individual to email or fax an absentee ballot has not been proven to be secure.
– Dannel P. Malloy, Governor

UPDATED

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Letter: Email, Fax Voting Provisions Mar Campaign Bill

By Luther Weeks on June 5, 2012

Many citizens and legislators do not understand that email voting is a risky form of Internet voting and that fax voting presents equivalent risks. If the system worked as it should, there would have been public hearings and a chance to educate our senators and representatives.

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Newspapers join CTVotersCount, ACLU, and CBIA in objections to H.B. 5556

By Luther Weeks on June 1, 2012

CTVotersCount opposes H.B. 5556 and has urged Governor Malloy to veto the bill because it contains a provision for risky, unconstitutional email and fax voting.

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NIST: Internet voting not yet feasible. (And neither are email and fax voting)

By Luther Weeks on May 23, 2012

Use of fax poses the fewest challenges, however fax offers limited protection for voter privacy. While the threats to telephone, e-mail, and web can be mitigated through the use of procedural and technical security controls, they are still more serious and challenging to overcome.

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Which, if any, of Connecticut’s 169 towns would be secure for Internet voting (let alone email and fax voting)?

By Luther Weeks on May 14, 2012

Some of the smaller Connecticut towns have very part time registrars who maintain office hours as infrequent as one hour a week. Registrars in their 70’s and 80’s whose towns have not provided them with access to email. Towns that have resisted laws to require them to post meeting minutes on the web as too challenging and costly? How will those towns accept and provide security for email and fax voting? How about even our larger cities? How well prepared are they and can they be?

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Campaign finance bill hacked, with risky email and fax voting provision, passed

By Luther Weeks on May 9, 2012

Email and fax voting are more dangerous than Internet voting. Has your email been hacked? Would you trust emails allegedly from your bank asking for your social security number and account number? Would you send them over the Internet in an email reply?
It seem like just last week that the Legislature mandated email access for all registrars.
We question the constitutionality of the secret vote waiver included in the bill.

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