Index

Cost Of Touch Screens (Up To 8x The Cost of Op Scan)

By Luther Weeks on April 5, 2008

Kim Zetter covers the costs of touch screens in Maryland in the Wired article, The Cost of E-Voting, <read> We are proud of our support of optical scan for Connecticut. In addition to being safer and more auditable, they cost Connecticut about 1/2 as much to purchase and are even more economical to maintain and […]

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Internet Voting is Too Risky for Public Elections

By Luther Weeks on April 4, 2008

We have criticized the DNC for accepting and promoting Internet voting for expat delegates to the convention. This set a completely wrong precedent. It does not take much to imagine the intimidation possible with an internet voting machine set up in a military base, union hall, nursing home, or church. By Verified Voting Foundation April […]

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Procedures Alone Insufficient For Effective Election Audits

By Luther Weeks on April 3, 2008

Coalition Releases 2nd Post-Election Audit Report <read>

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Quality and Voting Machines

By Luther Weeks on April 1, 2008

Imagine the discipline of Quality applied to voting machines. Business Wire story, ASQ Quality Report Offers Solutions to Error-Proof Voting Machines <read> . Basic modern engineering but we are not applying Quality techniques to voting. Perhaps much more is needed than outlined in this article to produce a voting system with integrity, confidence, and efficiency. […]

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Why We Vote: To Keep A Republic

By Luther Weeks on March 28, 2008

Robert Koehler, Huffington Post, Keep The Republic, <read> The ground feels a little soft, but we’re going to stand it. Premise one: Having a fair election — all votes counted, all who are eligible and want to vote allowed to vote — is far, far more important, even in 2008, than who wins. Premise two: […]

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Courant Editorial: Don’t Overlook The Assumptions

By Luther Weeks on March 24, 2008

We agree with the overall thrust and purpose of the editorial, to support the encoding in statute of privacy measures in the polling place to protect secret ballot and voters’ confidence in privacy.

Where we disagree is with some of the assumptions of the ediorial which subtely reaffirm the Courant’s blind faith in the integrity of our optical scan systems

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The Perils Of Online Voting – PA Voter Reg System Vulnerable

By Luther Weeks on March 21, 2008

Pennsylvania has taken down its voter registration system. It seems that a hacker can easily change voter registration information for other people. <read> Online voter registration PDFs are left unsecured on the server for anyone to access. Simply change the request ID at the end of the URL. Valid IDs appear to be working from […]

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E-Voting Is Very Different From E-Banking

By Luther Weeks on March 19, 2008

One more time, in detail from techdirt <read> the security model of an ATM is totally different from the security model of a voting machine. The most important line of defense against ATM fraud is not the machines themselves, but the fact that they produce a lengthy paper trail. If a hacker breaks into a […]

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American Statistical Association: Hard Copy Audits Critical To Election Integrity

By Luther Weeks on March 18, 2008

Press Release: American Statistical Association Calls for Audits to Increase Confidence in Electoral Outcomes, ASA Board adopts position on Electoral Integrity <release> . This should erase all lingering doubt on the part of legislators, election officials, and non-statisticians: â€œTrustworthy elections demand integrity throughout the entire electoral process, from voting laws and regulations to details of […]

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HB 5888 – New Audit Law – Including Hand Count Recounts

By Luther Weeks on March 13, 2008

Update 3/16/2008 Please see the 1st comment from George Cody correcting my impression that he was against the bill. Yesterday, I testified in favor of HB 5888 recommending some suggested changes. With some improvements the bill would be a big step forward providing an Independent Audit Board, more effective statistics based audits, removes some of […]

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