Forwarded from: Jim Patton <jim.patton@private> I voted on Super Tuesday using the new devices and after reading Mr. Rubin's report, I would have to agree with his concerns. Without a reliable and secure duplicate of each individual voter's election choices, I can see where problems can occur and security can be breached. I believe that the integrity of our voting process must be guarded more closely than the treasures held at Fort Knox. While I believe that the process of voting flowed rather smoothly and I was left with a positive feeling about the use of these machines, I was reminded of the old saying: "If something just seems to be too good to be true, it likely is too good to be true." -----Original Message----- From: owner-isn@private [mailto:owner-isn@private] On Behalf Of InfoSec News Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 3:09 AM To: isn@private Subject: [ISN] My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County by Avi Rubin http://www.avirubin.com/judge.html It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this morning. Today, I served as an election judge in the primary election, and I am writing down my experience now, despite being extremely tired, as everything is fresh in my mind, and this was one of the most incredible days in my life. I first became embroiled in the current national debate on evoting security when Dan Wallach of Rice University and I, along with Computer Scientist Yoshi Kohno and my Ph.D. student Adam Stubblefield released a report analyzing the software in Diebold's Accuvote voting machines. Although there were four of us on the project, perhaps because I was the most senior of the group, the report became widely associate with me, and people began referring to it as the "Hopkins report" or even in some cases the "Rubin report". I became the target of much criticism from Maryland and Georgia election officials who were deeply committed to these machines, and of course, of the vendor. The biggest criticism that I received was that I am an academic scientist and that academics do not "know siccum" about elections, as Doug Lewis from the Election Center put very eloquently. [...] - ISN is currently hosted by Attrition.org To unsubscribe email majordomo@private with 'unsubscribe isn' in the BODY of the mail.
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