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Re: Voting machine security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Mon Aug 18 17:03:27 2008
From: dan@geer.org
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
cc: cryptography mailing list <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:16:02 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:28:21 -0400
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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