Voting machine security

[dan at geer.org]

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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