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Hacked newspaper recommends online voting

By Luther Weeks on January 19, 2012

They also forget absentee voting fraud in Connecticut, while their print edition confuses tech-savvy with technical expertise.

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The Courant hits some good points, yet ironically misses the mark on election accountability

By Luther Weeks on January 4, 2012

Starting the year with a focus on accountability, the Courant Editorial Board overlooked integrity when it editorialized on elections. They also presented some ideas that we can and have supported

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Americans Elect – A license to steal the presidency?

By Luther Weeks on December 28, 2011

This is seriously dangerous. If you don’t join Americans Elect, their vote could determine the President. If you do join Americans Elect, the vote could be manipulated in the backroom or by hackers. Or the self-appointed board could override the actual vote.

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If banks loose billions online, why would we leave democracy to online voting?

By Luther Weeks on November 21, 2011

Even if ecommerce transactions were safe, the security technology underpinning them would not suffice for voting. In particular, the voting security and privacy requirements are unique and in tension in a way that has no analog in the ecommerce world.

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Beware: Americans Elect – We were just too optimistic

By Luther Weeks on November 10, 2011

We were just too optimistic, yet prophetic when we suggested the founders might not be happy with anything but their type of candidate.

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Senator not impressed by Science and Online Voting Symposium

By Luther Weeks on November 7, 2011

[Senator] Kane was unable to attend the Oct. 27 panel discussion, but dismissed the warnings from computer scientists. We hope he at least took the time to review the videos of the symposium online.

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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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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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Online Voting: Hartford Courant hacked?

By Luther Weeks on September 30, 2011

Was the “online tampering” done by outside hackers? Or was it an insider? Does the Courant have the expertise to determine the cause in this instance and actually create effective controls to prevent future online voting attacks? If so, the editors should be advising the likes of the Department of Defense, banks, and Google.

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Outlining a possible rigirous evaluation of Internet voting. And the ATM Fallacy, once again.

By Luther Weeks on August 16, 2011

The third FVAP UOCAVA workshop ended with a general agreement on a plan to move forward with a substantial project to evaluate the potential and security issues with Internet voting.

As a bonus we also recommend the same author’s recent post on the ATM fallacy

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