Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
There must be no undisclosed voting system software. However, HR 811’s proposed HAVA Section 301(a)(9), as currently written, fails to exempt software that is truly Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) from public disclosure. The bill must be amended to require true COTS software, such as the Windows operating system and standard printer drivers, to be escrowed and available to officials under confidentiality, but not publicly disclosed. // Connecting voting system components to the Internet or transmitting system information over the Internet facilitates hacking. However, HR 811’s proposed HAVA Section 301(a)(11), as currently written, would allow the central Election Management System (EMS) computer of a voting system to be connected to the Internet. The EMS computer of a voting system is arguably the component most critical to protect from Internet connection. The bill must be amended to ban all Internet connections for all components of a voting system. In addition, the bill should include a ban on the Internet transmission of voted overseas ballots referenced in HR 811’s proposed HAVA Section 301(a)(2)(C)….
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John posts:
Well said. Any legislators reading this thread are referenced to The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stohl. It shows how the number one pentagon software developer, 13 air force bases, computer operating system manufacturers, and others, were hacked by a single student in another country across the ocean.
And they had no idea they were being hacked, and Hacked, and HACKED!!!
It was written during the timeframe of this voting machine article and this voting machine government report.
Hacking is one thing, but hooking to the internet invites super massive hacking on a catastrophic scale.
Transparency is the solution. Just transmit/post all election results via the Web to everyone on the planet at once. Couldn’t public tally reporting be accomplished from the precinct level directly to the voters?