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http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1583/emailtg1/msg00121.html BY DR. REBECCA MERCURI
http://mainline.brynmawr.edu/~rmercuri/
(her home page, phone numbers etc) Vince,
Vern and others,
The MAIN reason why there are
no documented cases of voter fraud (yet)
using computers is because there is no
availability of INDEPENDENT inspection of
voting systems by experts (even when cases
have gone to court) because the vendors are
allowed to protect their products under
restrictive trade secret agreements making
it costly, time consuming, and unlikely to
obtain a court order to look at the
evidence. It is much akin to having a murder
trial and prohibiting the plaintiffs from
getting an autopsy or even reviewing the
autopsy REPORT.
Last year we attempted to get Palm Beach
County to just "wind" a single impounded
voting system back to where it was at the
start of election day so that we could cast
votes on it to see if it had malfunctioned
or was programmed incorrectly. The plaintiff
was willing to pay for the machine (though
we had no intention of "breaking it with our
screwdrivers" as the County attorney
asserted in court). The response was
basically "no, sorry, you can't do that,
it's a secret." We also presented a 2-page
list of materials that were supposed to have
been archived for the voting system by the
State of Florida and Palm Beach County
according to the Florida State Election Law.
We received ZERO of these materials (so why
bother having laws that say such should be
archived if nobody is going to get to see
them) and the response was again "no, sorry,
you can't review these, it's a secret." It
would certainly have been possible to sign a
non-disclosure agreement for the materials,
but we weren't even allowed to do that. If
there is voter fraud going on, the States,
Counties, Courts, and vendors have made sure
that nobody is going to find the evidence.
But the fact that it's a secret, though, is
not a secret.
Here's a reply that a colleague recently
received to a letter of inquiry regarding
the security of voting systems being
deployed in Fairfax County VA, where he
lives (and works, as a computer security
expert) and also votes: "Your many detailed
questions generally pertain to the security
systems used to protect the machines and the
software used by those machines. While we
appreciate that interest, to the extent that
the County has any information that may be
responsive to your request, I am advised to
decline to provide it since such information
is protected form disclosure by Virginia
Code 2.2-3705(A)(18) and 2.2-4342(F) because
of its proprietary nature and/or because
nondisclosure of this information is
permitted by Virginia Code
2.2-3705(A)(25),(45) and (69) and for the
reason that release of that information
could jeopardize the security of that voting
equipment. " Hey, it's certified! Guess
what, you can't check it out, see it says so
right here in our laws! If you have a
problem go away, you're a Sore Loserman! Is
this any way to run a Democracy? Maybe in
Cuba, or Iraq. Sorry, it's a secret, Rebecca
Mercuri.
Here is Dr. Mercuri's webpage about E-voting
http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
This is the link to the
IEEE engineers group and you will see a
long thread of conversation about E-Voting
and their arguments about the risks. What
is best about this is taht it is a
resource for the emails and names of the
most respected Electrical Engineers in the
USA. I have already made contact with a
man named Vincent Lipsio, and we've talked
about this in depth.
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1583/emailtg1/threads.html#00215
Federal Certification
Standards
http://www.fec.gov/pages/vssfinal/vss.html
About Voting machines:
California Department of State
information:
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/elections_w.htm
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/touchscreen.htm
http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/taskforce_report_2.pdf
The status of Florida's
congressfolk regarding HR 2239 is at:
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/stateview.asp?state=FL
http://tampatrib.com/News/MGAL7B7YUSD.html
A few good, general links:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/
http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
http://www.notablesoftware.com/evote.html
www.blackboxvoting.com
Here is a selection from
this blackboxvoting site:
http://thoughtcrimes.org/bbv/bbv_chapter-2.pdf
In the Alabama 2002 general election,
machines made by Election Systems and
Software (ES&S) flipped the governor's
race. Six thousand three hundred Baldwin
County electronic votes mysteriously
disappeared after polls had closed and
everyone had gone home.
...When I began researching this story in
October 2002, the media was reporting that
electronic voting machines are fun and
speedy, but I looked in vain for articles
reporting that they are accurate. I
discovered four magic words, "voting
machines and glitch," which, when entered
into the DJInteractive.com 2 search
engine, yielded a shocking result: A
staggering pile of miscounts was
accumulating.
Read this next selection and think, "How
could this effect any future referendum?"
...Voting machines failed to tally "yes"
votes on the 2002 school bond issue in
Gretna, Nebraska. This error gave the
false impression that the measure had
failed miserably, but it actually passed
by a 2 to 1 margin. An Orange County,
California, election computer made a 100
percent error during the April 1998 school
bond referendum. The Registrar of Voters
Office initially announced that the bond
issue had lost by a wide margin; in fact,
it was supported by a majority of the
ballots cast. The error was attributed to
a programmer's reversing the "yes" and
"no" answers in the software used to count
the votes. 6 In the November 2002 general
election in Scurry County, Texas, poll
workers got suspicious about a landslide
victory for two Republican commissioner
candidates. Told that a "bad chip" was to
blame, they had a new computer chip flown
in and also counted the votes by hand -
and found out that Democrats actually had
won by wide margins, overturning the
election. 10 According to The Wall Street
Journal, in the 2000 general election an
optical-scan machine in Allamakee County,
Iowa, was fed 300 ballots and reported 4
million votes. The county auditor tried
the machine again but got the same result.
Eventually, the machine's manufacturer,
ES&S, agreed to have replacement equipment
sent. Republicans had hoped that the tiny
but heavily Republican county would tip
the scales in George W. Bush's favor, but
tipping it by almost four million votes
attracted national attention. "We don't
have four million voters in the state of
Iowa," said Bill Roe Jr., county auditor.