Electronic Vulnerability

Why we need paper ballots

By Luther Weeks on March 17, 2012

Tuesday night, poll workers resorted to the old fashioned way of counting by hand.

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“Military Grade Security” for elections is a non sequitur

By Luther Weeks on February 15, 2012

Who should we believe? Vendors selling internet voting or computer scientists and government intelligence experts? We point out that the greatest danger to internet voting is insider manipulation, even easier for a single rogue election official or network insider. No need to steal paper ballots and fill them out. No risk of being caught in an audit or recount of voter verified paper ballots. UPDATE: Videos

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The Wild West: Presidential Primary “Election” Edition

By Luther Weeks on February 10, 2012

Selecting candidates for President is less safe and less democratic than most of us realize.

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Voting machine investigation leads to serious issues and cover-up

By Luther Weeks on December 19, 2011

This is serious stuff. The words that come to mind are: Illegal, unacceptable, unconscionable, ridiculous, unconstitutional, and undemocratic.

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Scanners like ours: Optical scanner counts differ for same ballots

By Luther Weeks on November 29, 2011

There should be an investigation, however, we suggest that determining the cause is not a complete cure. I could happen again. It could have happened in the past. Maybe in Connecticut.

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Secretary of the State’s Online Voting Symposium

By Luther Weeks on October 28, 2011

An excellent panel of experts on voting technology and the challenges of overseas voting. Credit is due to the panelists, the Secretary, and those who contributed behind the scenes in making this event possible. John Dankowski, of Connecticut Public Broadcasting did an exemplary job of moderating a very civil, thorough debate. If only typical panels and Legislative hearings could be more like this format, interactive, civil, and informative.

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UConn Report: Batteries and officials failing faster than previously reported

By Luther Weeks on October 25, 2011

Most projects start out slowly, and then sort of taper off.
– Augustine’s Law #XL

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Voting more vulnerable than ATM’s – That’s not saying much

By Luther Weeks on October 18, 2011

No reason to say “It can’t happen here”.

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Where Common Sense fails: Do insider attacks require a sophisticated conspiracy?

By Luther Weeks on October 10, 2011

In this post, we address where Common Sense fails. Where what seems obvious to individuals and election officials is often counter to the facts or science. Those that are unfamiliar with technology and a specific area of science often overestimate how difficult or easy specific things are to accomplish.

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Caltech/MIT: Election Integrity – Past, Present & Future

By Luther Weeks on October 3, 2011

On Saturday October 1st, I was pleased to be a part of the The Future panel at the Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project event, Election Integrity – Past, Present & Future. The event was to celebrate the 25th anniversary of a conference on voting integrity held in 1986.

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