Re: CRIME Electronic Voting Security

From: Anthony Brock (anthony_brock@private)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 07:36:13 PDT

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    >>> Crispin Cowan <crispin@private> 09/10/03 11:33PM >>>
    >I don't buy that. No criticism of Anitian; rather Oregon's vote by mail 
    >system is woefully vulnerable:
    >
    >    * Simple mail fraud.
    >    * Coercion: there is no evidence that individuals are no coereced to
    >      vote particular ways by family members, enforcement goons, or bribery.
    >    * There is no VVAR (Voter Verifiable Audit Record) of any kind. In
    >      fact, the voter has no evidence at all that their vote was counted.
    
    Of course, VVAR didn't exist even prior to vote-by-mail. While coercion and mail fraud are recent additions to the list, voters have never known if their votes have counted.
    
    Tony
    



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