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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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Ron Rivest explains why elections should be audited, especially in MA.

By Luther Weeks on May 29, 2012

Prof Ron Rivest recently summarized in the Boston Globe why elections should be audited. While MIT is a leading source of election integrity research, ironically, it sits in a state with voter verified paper ballots, yet does not use them to verify election results.

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CA, we told you so… predictable, unintended consequences of open primaries

By Luther Weeks on May 24, 2012

We wish in cases like this that we were more frequently wrong in our predictions.

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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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CO Legislature, Election Officials want to create “a favored class of citizens”

By Luther Weeks on May 20, 2012

The ballot access issue has been debated in Colorado for too long. It is time for ballots to be confirmed as public records

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60 Districts Selected for Post-Election Audits

By Luther Weeks on May 16, 2012

Yesterday, with the assistance of Coalition members, Secretary of the State Denise Merrill selected sixty districts from the Republican Presidential Primary for post-election audit.

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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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Courant does So-So fact check of its latest editorial

By Luther Weeks on May 13, 2012

The nation’s oldest continuously downsizing newspaper did a So-So job of fact checking its latest editorial, reviewing the legislative session. Here is our analysis, which actually is the Courant’s Report Card: Accuracy: C-; History: F; Prognosis: F

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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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