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by Robert McMillan,
IDG News Service
Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:30 PM PDT
https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144431/us_presidential_election_can_be_hacked.html
This
year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting
machines
that can be hacked, security experts said Thursday at the RSA
[Security]
Conference in San Francisco.
As the November election approaches, the
question before officials is
not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting
systems, but rather, how
best to check them for fraud, said David Wagner, an
associate
professor with the University of California, Berkeley's
computer
science department.
Wagner was part of the team that audited
California's voting systems
during the state's review of electronic voting,
and the problems his
team found affect counties across the U.S. "The three
systems we
looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation,"
he
said during an e-voting panel discussion at the show. "They're going
to
be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have
the same
vulnerabilities we found."
...... About a quarter of the votes cast in
the upcoming election will
be on electronic voting equipment with no paper
trail, Wagner said.
And even the states that keep paper records are not
necessarily
checking their results. Only about a third of all states have
records
that are regularly audited.
That's too bad, he said, because
the ability to check whether your
voting system has been hacked is of
paramount importance. "Security is
not the most important thing," he said.
"What's more important for
elections is auditability.
"
Read the entire
article:
https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144431/us_presidential_election_can_be_hacked.html
---------------------------------
My
Comments on the PC World article:
I agree completely with David Wagner,
but would add that any federal,
state, or local elections can likewise be
hacked undetectably due to
the utter lack of independent scrutiny over
elections in 49 States (NM
is the only state which subjects its election
results to independently
administered post-election audits), and one way to
improve the chances
that elections are not hacked would be to pass HR5036
with these
amendments as quickly as possible.
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/RequestedAmendments2HR5036.pdf
HR5036
would fund paper ballots and manual post-election audits for
the November
election for jurisdictions who choose to take advantage
of the
opportunity.
US Democracy is worth preserving, and is vital to the
well-being of
humanity world-wide. It is doubtful that the US is truly
democracy
today because our ballots are secretly counted by private
companies
using software that is compiled into machine language that no
human
being can read; and post-election data analysis is consistent
with
ubiquitous vote miscount. Without manual independent
post-election
audits of paper ballots that voters created or verified, it is
humanly
impossible for anyone to claim that our votes are being
accurately
counted.
Take Action Now to Preserve our Own and our
Childrens' Futures:
1. Purchase a copy of this PCWorld magazine and give
copies of this
article to your local election officials and legislators and
ask them
to conduct valid election audits like the audit proposal
recommended
here:
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/VoteCountAuditBillRequest.pdf
2.
Contact your US Rep. and Senators to ask them to pass HR5036 with
these
amendments to ensure that its audits would detect any errors in
unofficial
vote counts.
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/RequestedAmendments2HR5036.pdf
Thank
you.
--
Kathy Dopp
The material expressed herein is the
informed product of the author
Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative
efforts. Dopp is a
Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and
procedures; in
exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached
at
P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657
https://utahcountvotes.org
https://electionmathematics.org
https://electionarchive.org
History
of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election
Auditing Fundamentals
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf
Vote
Yes on HR5036
https://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/legislation/SummaryFlyer5036.pdf
Voters
Have Reason to Worry
https://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf
"Enlighten
the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will
vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in
1816
Read the entire
article:
https://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144431/us_presidential_election_can_be_hacked.html
---------------------------------
My
Comments on the PC World article:
I agree completely with David Wagner,
but would add that any federal,
state, or local elections can likewise be
hacked undetectably due to
the utter lack of independent scrutiny over
elections in 49 States (NM
is the only state which subjects its election
results to independently
administered post-election audits), and one way to
improve the chances
that elections are not hacked would be to pass HR5036
with these
amendments as quickly as possible.
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/RequestedAmendments2HR5036.pdf
HR5036
would fund paper ballots and manual post-election audits for
the November
election for jurisdictions who choose to take advantage
of the
opportunity.
US Democracy is worth preserving, and is vital to the
well-being of
humanity world-wide. It is doubtful that the US is truly
democracy
today because our ballots are secretly counted by private
companies
using software that is compiled into machine language that no
human
being can read; and post-election data analysis is consistent
with
ubiquitous vote miscount. Without manual independent
post-election
audits of paper ballots that voters created or verified, it is
humanly
impossible for anyone to claim that our votes are being
accurately
counted.
Take Action Now to Preserve our Own and our
Childrens' Futures:
1. Purchase a copy of this PCWorld magazine and give
copies of this
article to your local election officials and legislators and
ask them
to conduct valid election audits like the audit proposal
recommended
here:
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/VoteCountAuditBillRequest.pdf
2.
Contact your US Rep. and Senators to ask them to pass HR5036 with
these
amendments to ensure that its audits would detect any errors in
unofficial
vote counts.
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/legislative/RequestedAmendments2HR5036.pdf
Thank
you.
--
Kathy Dopp
The material expressed herein is the
informed product of the author
Kathy Dopp's fact-finding and investigative
efforts. Dopp is a
Mathematician, Expert in election audit mathematics and
procedures; in
exit poll discrepancy analysis; and can be reached
at
P.O. Box 680192
Park City, UT 84068
phone 435-658-4657
https://utahcountvotes.org
https://electionmathematics.org
https://electionarchive.org
History
of Confidence Election Auditing Development & Overview of
Election
Auditing Fundamentals
https://electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/paper-audits/History-of-Election-Auditing-Development.pdf
Vote
Yes on HR5036
https://electionarchive.org/ucvInfo/US/legislation/SummaryFlyer5036.pdf
Voters
Have Reason to Worry
https://utahcountvotes.org/UT/UtahCountVotes-ThadHall-Response.pdf
"Enlighten
the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body
and mind will
vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day," wrote
Thomas Jefferson in
1816
When I have time and it is not too tedious a job, I will clean up the advanced editor mess but when I cannot, you will see as it is above.