Voting machine security
dan at geer.org
dan at geer.org
Mon Aug 18 16:28:21 EDT 2008
Paul Hoffman writes:
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| At 9:24 AM -0700 8/18/08, Eric Rescorla wrote:
| >(and because of the complexity of US elections,
| >hand counting is quite expensive)
|
| This is quite disputable. Further, hand vs. machine counting is core
| to the way we think about the security of the voting system.
|
The keynote talk for the USENIX Security Symposium was
Dr. Strangevote or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Paper Ballot
Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State
and her talk had one slide only. I do not have the
slide, but I can reproduce it. It was a photo of
the tail end of her car and on it a bumper sticker.
That bumper sticker read
PREVENT UNWANTED PRESIDENCIES
MAKE VOTE COUNTING A HAND JOB
In no other state could a Constitutional Officer
get away with such a bumper sticker, but...
--dan
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