Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
Officials in Mississippi are the first to speak out and tell their voters that even though the voters are forced to use the same Diebold Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) voting machines that recently failed security testing in California and Florida, there are no problems in Mississippi. It probably has to do with an upcoming primary election next Tuesday. What a tangled web we weave…
Matt Blaze, the leader of the California Source Code Team that looked at Sequoia code, had this to say about the results from inspection of all three vendors’ code:
Unfortunately, while finding many of the vulnerabilities may have been straightforward enough, fixing them won’t be. The root problems are architectural. All three reviewed products are, in effect, large-scale distributed systems that have many of their security-critical functions performed by equipment sent out into the field. In particular, the integrity of the vote tallies depends not only on the central computers at the county elections offices, but also on the voting machines (and software) at the polling places, removable media that pass through multiple hands, and complex human processes whose security implications may not be clear to the people who perform them. In other words, the designs of these systems expose generously wide “attack surfaces” to anyone who seeks to compromise them. And the defenses are dangerously fragile — almost any bug, anywhere, has potential security implications.
Those stories, and boatloads of more voting news today, as the avalanche of e-voting failures continue, are all linked below…
NAtional: Why VVPAT ‘Paper Trials’ are Not Enough LINK
NAtional: Viewpoint: The Devil Is In the Details LINK
NAtional: Viewpoint: Slow Down, You’re Moving Too Fast LINK
NAtional: Report: post-election audits needed to ensure election integrity LINK
NAtional: Democrats Plan to Assess Voting State by State LINK
NAtional: Paper-trail perspective LINK
NAtional: NYTimes: The ‘Revolving Door’ of Partisan Election Officials and the Voting Machine Industry LINK
CA: California voting systems code review now released
Almost as eagerly anticipated as the new Harry Potter book. LINK
CA: Shame on Them! CA. Election Officials Attack Their Chief LINK
CA: Thank you, California Secretary of State Bowen! LINK
CA: Researchers recommend tougher post-election audits LINK
CA: Computer voting machines on trial
County officials are confident of security, but tests show otherwise LINK
CA: Why all California’s electronic voting systems should be decertified LINK
CA: Columnist – Daniel Weintraub: Bowen weighs future of ‘black box’ voting in state LINK
CA: Secretary Bowen’s review of voting systems LINK
CA: Why Many Californians Don’t Trust the Vendors of Electronic Voting Systems and Election Officials Who Defend Them LINK
CA: Editorial – Voting fraud six months removed? LINK
CA: Butte County – County clerk challenges voting machine test LINK
CA: Riverside County – E-voting questioned LINK
CT: Long-Due Voting Change LINK
FL: Diebold E-Voting Flaws Could Compromise Elections
Florida isn’t crazy about optical scan voting devices slated to be used in the state’s presidential primary elections next year. LINK
FL: Test Finds Florida Faces E-Voting Problems LINK
FL: Opinion – Yet another voting headache
At least this time, the flaws were found before the election LINK
FL: The Plot Thickens for Electronic Voting LINK
FL: More voting machine problems: Florida, again LINK
FL: Volusia County – Voting machines to stay put
Volusia responds to reported security worries about taking equipment home. LINK
GA: Voter group criticizes paper ballot trial LINK
GA: VoterGA Gives One Year Update on E-Voting Lawsuit LINK
GA: Handel rehashes voter ID ploy LINK
MS: Be wary of those who offer voter ID as a fix-all for elections LINK
MS: State agency insists Miss. voting machines OK LINK
NJ: Activists cast vote for scanners to replace electronic balloting LINK
NJ: Judge won’t order voting machines testing LINK
NJ: Sussex County – Voter backup system questioned LINK
NY: Our Worst Nightmare Is Our Reality LINK
OH: Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Ballots Illegally Destroyed, Missing in At Least 56 of 88 Counties… LINK
OH: The criminal cover-up of Ohio’s stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic LINK
TN: Election Commission Hopes To Make Voting Quicker LINK
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As expected… a parade of e-voting apologists bent on damage control:
NAtional: Viewpoint: The Devil Is In the Details
NAtional: Viewpoint: Slow Down, You’re Moving Too Fast
NAtional: Paper-trail perspective
CA: Butte County – County clerk challenges voting machine test
MS: State agency insists Miss. voting machines OK
… so…
…. why did the corporations and their paid-for election officials scream so loudly in the past when asked about anything that might have even remotely resembled “more accurate testing”…?
John,
Speaking of memorable votes …In August of 2005:
(Boston Globe, emphasis added).
So, with the most money ever to fix things:
(HuffPo, emphasis added). After allocating the most money in History for just such problems, is this the answer:
(CNN). I think we need to take a hard look at what happened to the most money in history two years ago, before we spend the most money in history again.
That is my vote.