After seven weeks of trial, the factual record is devoid of any allegations of fraud, tampering, or security breeches on Election Day, during the recount process, or during the election contest.
We are not comfortable that a statewide or even a Congressonal District recount in Connecticut would result is a thorough or as credible a recount as we have seen and admire in Minnesota.
We highly recommend the 2nd video, if you are willing to invest the 87 minutes.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on April 15, 2009 - National[read post] | By Luther Weeks on April 14, 2009 - CT, Internet Voting, Other EditorialsOpponents of Internet voting argue that security risks are too plentiful and blatant to ignore. They point to the threat of hackers and other forms of fraud, as well as glitches that could prevent votes from being counted or result in a miscount.
Those are legitimate concerns. Any efforts to expand the role of Internet voting must be vetted in the most public way possible, open to examination by the nation’s top computer experts.
Before scrapping a system that has been in place for more than 200 years, however, political scientist Dorothy B. James cautioned that the NPV has more than a few obstacles to overcome before becoming reality…”Until you can take care of these technical issues, then you are not going to get closer to one person one vote,” James said.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on April 6, 2009 - CTDespite opposition by the Secretary of the State, Susan Bysiewicz, TrueVoteCT members, CTVoters Count, and the League of Women Voters, HB-5903 was as voted out of the General Administration and Elections Committee unanimously today. The bill will allow members of the military to submit absentee votes electronically.
This not a wild theoretical concern: Ironically, CNN has just reported that the Chinese or others have software they have used to infiltrate critical computers around the world
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 30, 2009 - CT, CT Law, Internet Voting[Easton Connecticut] is looking into using paper ballots for the upcoming budget referendums to save money.
We would recommend against all paper. Audits have shown that Connecticut election officials have difficulty counting even a few hundred ballots accurately. We also remember a very frustrating day observing the Easton election officials attempting to accurately count ballots for the audit after the November 2007 Municipal Election.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 29, 2009 - CT, CT Skulduggery and Errors“I follow the vote. And wherever the vote becomes an electron and touches a computer, that’s an opportunity for a malicious actor potentially to . . . make bad things happen.”
We agree with the agent that electronic voting can be compromised, but some details in the testimony are questionable.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 25, 2009 - Internet Voting, NationalOver 1000 blogs are celebrating Ada Lovelace day today: Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology…We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 24, 2009 - National | Tagged ALD09postNobody makes a bigger mistake than (s)he who did nothing
because (s)he could only do a little
Security firm Sophos reported this week that it received three samples of a trojan that was customized to run on Diebold-manufactured cash machines in Russia…
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 19, 2009 - Electronic Vulnerability, Internet Security Issues, National“Today’s hearing confirmed one of my worst fears,” said Kim Alexander, founder and president of the non-profit California Voter Foundation. “The audit logs have been the top selling point for vendors hawking paperless voting systems. They and the jurisdictions that have used paperless voting machines have repeatedly pointed to the audit logs as the primary security mechanism and ‘fail-safe’ for any glitch that might occur on machines. To discover that the fail-safe itself is unreliable eliminates one of the key selling points for electronic voting security.”
In Connecticut we avoid these specific problems. But we don’t avoid similar problems.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 18, 2009 - Electronic Vulnerability, National, Skulduggery and ErrorsClose election in Fairfax County decided by reading computer memory.
Maybe it is all mostly accurate. But, without a voter verified paper record who knows? Maybe there is a lesson in here for us. Unfortunately, there is also a lesson here for those looking for ways to game the system in the future.
[read post] | By Luther Weeks on March 12, 2009 - Electronic Vulnerability, National, Skulduggery and Errors
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