voting: economics of paper trails

2004-09-19 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Isn't it *cheaper* (as well as more accurate) to have preprinted ballots, optically scanned, then to have an embedded computer print out a paper trail? Ie, don't the benefits of volume printing beat the cheapest printing tech? Besides the other advantages of being self-verifiable, more accurate,

Re: Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines draws stern warning

2004-09-11 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 7:56 AM -0700 9/11/04, Major Variola (ret) wrote: The No paper trail, no trust coalition In St. Thomas, of course, it's No paper trail, no trus' mon. ;-) Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Re: Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines draws stern warning

2004-09-11 Thread Major Variola (ret)
t 06:59 PM 9/10/04 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article?id=7181775 Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines draws stern warning The warning came after Elections officials received a faxed document last week stating that a $10,000 cash

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread Eric Murray
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote: Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78 Apparently so. Going to www.blackboxvoting.org now just gives: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread Sunder
the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. This program is not stupidity or sloppiness. It was designed

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread sfurlong
Quoting Eric Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Sunder wrote: Oops! Is that a cat exiting the bag? http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78 Apparently so. Going to www.blackboxvoting.org now just gives: Don't break out the tinfoil hats yet.

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread John Young
No problem accessing blackbox.org and Parts 1 and 2 of the file at 5:15 PM EST. Perhaps there are blocks on some incoming routes.

Re: Backdoor found in Diebold Voting Tabulators

2004-08-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
illicit back door entries. In GEMS, however, by typing a two-digit code into a hidden location, you can decouple the books, so that the voting system

Israelis voting for Bush defeated Gore

2004-08-16 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Contrary to widespread belief, it was more likely American voters in Israel, not Florida, who put George W. Bush in the White House four years ago — a phenomenon that has Kerry's supporters in Israel vowing to do whatever it takes to make certain that doesn't happen again in November. Those who

Re: Israelis voting for Bush defeated Gore

2004-08-16 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Major Variola (ret) wrote: 2000 in Florida. Only after all the overseas votes were counted, including more than 12,000 from Israel alone, was Bush's election victory certified. Yet another reason to nuke Israel. -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0xBD4A95BF

He Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting

2004-06-15 Thread R. A. Hettinga
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/politics/15vote.html?pagewanted=printposition= The New York Times June 15, 2004 He Pushed the Hot Button of Touch-Screen Voting By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE Kevin Shelley is a big and voluble Irish politician, the son of a former San Francisco mayor

Re: voting

2004-04-21 Thread David Jablon
David Jablon wrote: [...] Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? At 11:43 AM 4/16/04 -0700, Ed Gerck wrote: The privacy, coercion, intimidation, vote selling and election integrity problems begin with

Re: voting

2004-04-21 Thread Ed Gerck
David Jablon wrote: ... *absolute* voter privacy seems like an unobtainable goal, and it should not be used to trump other important goals, like accountability. But it IS assured today by paper ballots. Nothing less should be accepted in electronic systems, otherwise new, easy and silent

Re: voting

2004-04-19 Thread Ed Gerck
a pre-defined, unlikely voting pattern in each race of a ballot. This exemplifies one reason why we need the 'second law' -- to preserve unlinkability between ballots and voters. So there's a need to design the system to have more voters than ballot boxes to conform to your second law

Blacknet voting

2004-04-19 Thread Tyler Durden
I don't know...I've been following some of the voting discussion, and to some extent for the rank-and-file, doesn't this still boil down to trust us? (In other words, it looks like a large number of people have to work very carefully to make sure the voting system is secure, and then voters

Re: voting

2004-04-18 Thread Yeoh Yiu
Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Jablon wrote: The 'second law' also takes precedence: ballots are always secret, only vote totals are known and are known only after the election ends. What I see in serious voting system research efforts are attempts to build systems

RE: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Trei, Peter
Ed Gerck[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] John Kelsey wrote: At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think

Re: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Ed Gerck
a promotion... etc. Also relevant is that voters may WANT to keep their receipts, for the same reasons. It seems a legitimate priority for a voting system to be designed to assure voters that the system is working. As long as this does not go against the 'first law' for public voting systems

Re: voting

2004-04-16 Thread David Jablon
I think Ed's criticism is off-target. Where is the privacy problem with Chaum receipts when Ed and others still have the freedom to refuse theirs or throw them away? It seems a legitimate priority for a voting system to be designed to assure voters that the system is working. What I see

RE: voting

2004-04-16 Thread Jerrold Leichter
late get very little privacy. Interestingly enough, proper shuffling of the votes is very much a central concern of systems like VoteHere's! The only system that by the laws of nature avoids this kind of attack is the mechanical voting machine, which inherently only stores vote totals

RE: voting

2004-04-15 Thread John Kelsey
At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: .. 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think the VoteHere scheme and David Chaum's scheme both claim to solve this problem

RE: voting

2004-04-15 Thread Bill Frantz
One area we are not addressing in voting security is absentee ballots. The use of absentee ballots is rising in US elections, and is even being advocated as a way for individuals to get a printed ballot in jurisdictions which use electronic-only voting machines. Political parties are encouraging

Re: voting

2004-04-15 Thread Ed Gerck
John Kelsey wrote: At 11:05 AM 4/9/04 -0400, Trei, Peter wrote: 1. The use of receipts which a voter takes from the voting place to 'verify' that their vote was correctly included in the total opens the way for voter coercion. I think the VoteHere scheme and David Chaum's scheme

voting, KISS, etc.

2004-04-10 Thread R. A. Hettinga
--- begin forwarded text Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: voting, KISS, etc. From: Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 12:46:47 -0400 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think that those that advocate cryptographic protocols to ensure voting

Re: voting, KISS, etc. ( social bias)

2004-04-10 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Perry I agree with you on all *except* that you are prejudiced against folks who are not mobile, have immobile dependants, are busy or agoraphobes. In-person voting doesn't resist graveyard voting much better than lining up the meat. One could say that in-person voting rewards those too lazy

RE: voting

2004-04-10 Thread Jerrold Leichter
| privacy wrote: | [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted] | | It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded | and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud, | error and incompetence is overwhelming

RE: voting

2004-04-10 Thread Trei, Peter
privacy wrote: [good points about weaknesses in adversarial system deleted] It's baffling that security experts today are clinging to the outmoded and insecure paper voting systems of the past, where evidence of fraud, error and incompetence is overwhelming. Cryptographic

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread Major Variola (ret)
, Perry and other KISS advocates have a very strong (albeit social) point. Joe Sixpack can understand *and test* levers or Hollerith cards or their optical counterparts. Good luck getting him to understand number theory. It would be better in many estimations to have even coercible voting than

Re: voting

2004-04-08 Thread privacy.at Anonymous Remailer
. The adversarial method does wonders for assuring that tampering is difficult at all stages of a voting system. On the contrary, the adversarial method is an extremely *weak* source of security in a voting system. In the first place, it fails for primary elections where there are multiple

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-12-02 Thread ken
Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed ? They all starve. Lambs can eat grass, which is usually unarmed

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-12-02 Thread Harmon Seaver
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:06:43PM +, ken wrote: Thomas Shaddack wrote: On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-29 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Neil Johnson wrote: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed ? They all starve. Lambs can eat grass, which is usually unarmed.

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-29 Thread Bill Stewart
Optical Mark Sense - certainly the way to go if you want to computerize, except that the manufacturers aren't big Bush Republican donors. I'm used to mechanical lever machines in Delaware and New Jersey (which seem to mostly work well except for write-in votes), plus the punch-card things in

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 11:10 PM 11/26/03 +0100, Nomen Nescio wrote: Cameras in the voting booth? Jesus Christ, you guys are morons. If you want to sell your vote, just vote absentee. The ward guy will even stamp and mail it for you. Happens every election. For some reason I don't understand, people actually

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-28 Thread Neil Johnson
On Wednesday 26 November 2003 11:18 am, Tim May wrote: Liberty is characterized in the .sig below: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin And if they are all armed ? They all starve. -- Neil

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-28 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 07:10 PM 11/25/03 -0800, Tim May wrote: I have no problem with this free choice contract. The only ones allowed to buy votes are the ones running for office. And they are required to do it on credit. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-28 Thread anonymous
chooses 'great' - receipt disappears into ballot box Voter chooses 'nope' - receipt disappears into trash bin / can be taken home as a souvenir. Since the voting booth is private, no one can see you do this, even if it were made illegal. (And since phones can store

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Neil Johnson
voting, but still make it impossible to use a camera without being detected. Peter I was thinking of those boxes with viewing ports that you look into to get your eyes tested when you renew your drivers license. You could have those out in the open, that way you'd have the privacy (only turn

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread BillyGOTO
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:26:18PM -0800, Tim May wrote: (I fully support vote buying and selling, needless to say. Simple right to make a contract.) What's your take on this situation, then: BOSS: Get in that booth and vote Kennedy or I'll fire you. Take this expensive camera with

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Tim May
has been checked. I realize you big city types (yes, Tim, Corralitos is big compared to my little burg) have full scale voting booths with curtains (I used the big mechanical machines when I lived in Manhatten), but out here in the sticks, the 'voting booth' is a little standing desk affair

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Tim May
of vote buying consistent with rejection of Democracy? Liberty is characterized in the .sig below: Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! -- Ben Franklin

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
receipts) Oh, and by the way, these are the only kind of electronic voting machines approved, so far, in Mass. Miles Fidelman ** The Center for Civic Networking PO Box 600618 Miles R. Fidelman, President

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Dave Howe
Miles Fidelman wrote: - option for a quick and dirty recount by feeding the ballots through a different counting machine (maybe with different software, from a different vendor) or indeed constructing said machines so they *assume* they will be feeding another machine in a chain (so every party

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Dave Howe wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: - option for a quick and dirty recount by feeding the ballots through a different counting machine (maybe with different software, from a different vendor) or indeed constructing said machines so they *assume* they will be

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread BillyGOTO
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 09:18:42AM -0800, Tim May wrote: On Nov 26, 2003, at 8:10 AM, BillyGOTO wrote: I have no problem with this free choice contract. You can't sell your vote for the same reason that Djinni don't grant wishes for more wishes. A silly comment. I take it you're saying

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Trei, Peter
recount of the original ballots (which are probably more legible than any machine-printed receipts) Oh, and by the way, these are the only kind of electronic voting machines approved, so far, in Mass. Miles Fidelman Indeed, thats where I live, and the tech we use. It pretty much fits all

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Nomen Nescio
Cameras in the voting booth? Jesus Christ, you guys are morons. If you want to sell your vote, just vote absentee. The ward guy will even stamp and mail it for you. Happens every election.

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-26 Thread Tyler Durden
Doesn't make sense. Votes are already bought and sold, but there's so many middle men taking their cuts in the form of military bases or whatnot that the enduser barely gets some. -TD From: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Tim May
On Nov 24, 2003, at 8:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 11/24/2003 11:12:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I expect there may be some good solutions to this issue, but I haven't yet seen them discussed here or on other fora I run across. What part of I

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 11/24/2003 11:12:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I expect there may be some good solutions to this issue, but I haven't yet seen them discussed here or on other fora I run across. Like what? Regards, Matt-

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Frantz
At 2:30 PM -0800 11/24/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 01:04 PM 11/24/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Thats not how it works. The idea is that you make your choices on the machine, and when you lock them in, two things happen: They are electronically recorded in the device for the normal count, and

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Morlock Elloi
You might check out David Chaum's latest solution at http://www.vreceipt.com/, there are more details in the whitepaper: http://www.vreceipt.com/article.pdf That is irrelevant. Whatever the solution is it must be understandable and verifiable by the Standard high school dropout. Also, the

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Bill Frantz
At 8:04 PM -0800 11/24/03, Tim May wrote: I expect there may be some good solutions to this issue, but I haven't yet seen them discussed here or on other fora I run across. And since encouraging the democrats has never been a priority for me, I haven't spent much time worrying about how to improve

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Tim May
On Nov 24, 2003, at 3:52 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: At 2:30 PM -0800 11/24/03, Major Variola (ret) wrote: At 01:04 PM 11/24/03 -0500, Trei, Peter wrote: Thats not how it works. The idea is that you make your choices on the machine, and when you lock them in, two things happen: They are electronically

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Sunder
a picture of your face adjacent to the committed receipt, even if you can't touch it. Since the voting booth is private, no one can see you do this, even if it were made illegal. (And since phones can store images, jamming the transmission at the booth doesn't work.) You send your picture from

Re: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Tim May
a short time, certainly long before any of the receipt electronic voting systems are widely deployed. (e.g., this article at http://www.what-cellphone.com/articles/200305/ 200305_Easy_Snapping.php) But the resolution of today's very inexpensive digital cameras, and probably those

RE: e voting (receipts, votebuying, brinworld)

2003-11-25 Thread Trei, Peter
big city types (yes, Tim, Corralitos is big compared to my little burg) have full scale voting booths with curtains (I used the big mechanical machines when I lived in Manhatten), but out here in the sticks, the 'voting booth' is a little standing desk affair with 18 inch privacy shields on 3 sides

RE: e voting

2003-11-24 Thread Trei, Peter
cubic-dog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure

Re: e voting

2003-11-24 Thread cubic-dog
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure their votes are properly recorded. Great

Re: e voting

2003-11-24 Thread Tim May
On Nov 24, 2003, at 9:51 AM, cubic-dog wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make sure

Re: e voting

2003-11-22 Thread Bill Frantz
At 9:19 AM -0800 11/21/03, Tim May wrote: On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can check to make

Re: e voting

2003-11-22 Thread John Washburn
Message- From: Roy M. Silvernail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: e voting On Friday 21 November 2003 12:19, Tim May wrote: On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected

Re: e voting

2003-11-21 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Friday 21 November 2003 12:19, Tim May wrote: On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:16 AM, Major Variola (ret.) wrote: Secretary of State Kevin Shelley is expected to announce today that as of 2006, all electronic voting machines in California must be able to produce a paper printout that voters can

Re: e voting

2003-11-21 Thread Dave Howe
- but instead, is deposited in a conventional voting box for use in recounts.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-04 Thread Peter Gutmann
Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (I bought _one_ lottery ticket, for $1, just to see how the numbers were done. Lotteries are of course a tax on the gullible and stupid.) A friend of mine likes to say that lotteries are a tax on stupidity: The dumber you are, the more tax you have to pay.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-04 Thread Tim May
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 04:06 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote: Tim May [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (I bought _one_ lottery ticket, for $1, just to see how the numbers were done. Lotteries are of course a tax on the gullible and stupid.) A friend of mine likes to say that lotteries are a tax on

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-03 Thread ken
Major Variola (ret) wrote: Currently voting is trusted because political adversaries supervise the process. Previously the mechanics were, well, mechanical, ie, open for inspection. That really is worth saying more often. If we here can't agree on how to make machine voting both robust

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-03 Thread John Washburn
Variola (ret); [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Chaumian blinding public voting? On Friday 31 October 2003 12:10 pm, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you (or anyone) can run

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-03 Thread Tim May
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 02:44 AM, ken wrote: Major Variola (ret) wrote: Currently voting is trusted because political adversaries supervise the process. Previously the mechanics were, well, mechanical, ie, open for inspection. That really is worth saying more often. If we here can't

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-03 Thread Tim May
On Monday, November 3, 2003, at 02:44 AM, ken wrote: If we here can't agree on how to make machine voting both robust and private, then EVEN IF A PERFECT SYSTEM COULD BE DESIGNED it is extremely unlikely that a large number of people could be persuaded that it /was/ perfect. So if public

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Neil Johnson
On Friday 31 October 2003 10:55 pm, Tim May wrote: .. (Standard Tim May Anyone who doesn't agree with me deserves to die a horrible death rant) ... --Tim May I figured that was coming. Chuckle. -- Neil Johnson http://www.njohnsn.com PGP key available on request.

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Neil Johnson
in the paper. The voter could check to see if their vote had been altered. I still think far better methods for improving voter turn out other than Internet voting are: 1. A National Election Holiday (but in the middle of the work week so people can't use it to extend a vacation). 2. Couple

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Steve Furlong
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 23:55, Tim May wrote: Increasing voter turnout is, of course, a Bad Thing. For the reasons we discuss so often. Agreed. To the extent that I want a government at all, I support a constitutional republic, not a democracy. Legions of bleary-eyed, TV-addled, bigoted

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Major Variola (ret)
to furriners: in the US you don't need ID to register or to vote, just a signature, and for that an X suffices.] Although I *do* agree with you --resistance to votebuying is a desirable feature if you can have it. (Insert cellphone-with-camera-in-voting-booth discussion here.) (And yes, voting at home

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread howiegoodell
is in there, and you (or anyone) can run the maths and verify the vote? Without being able to link people to votes without their consent. Currently voting is trusted because political adversaries supervise the process. Previously the mechanics were, well, mechanical, ie, open for inspection

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Tim May wrote: Or should we just add 20 of the remaining 30 list subscribers here to the list of 25 million in these united states who need to be sent up the chimneys? Works for me. Do we actually have 30 subscribers left? -- Yours, J.A. Terranson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-11-02 Thread Tim May
a MAC of their ballot and then print the MAC's in the paper. The voter could check to see if their vote had been altered. I still think far better methods for improving voter turn out other than Internet voting are: 1. A National Election Holiday (but in the middle of the work week so people

Chaumian blinding public voting?

2003-10-31 Thread Major Variola (ret)
Is is possible to use blinding (or other protocols) so that all votes are published, you can check that your vote is in there, and you (or anyone) can run the maths and verify the vote? Without being able to link people to votes without their consent. Currently voting is trusted because

Re: [Politech] California elections official starts verifiable voting blog

2003-09-29 Thread Sunder
Appropos voting: a very disturbing article is here: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=11811 - Who plans to steal the 2004 US elections? Some people have it figured out By Egan Orion: Monday 29 September 2003, 06

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

2003-09-28 Thread Tim May
://www.cryptonomicon.net/ modules.php?name=Newsfile=printsid=463 Cryptonomicon.Net - Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy available? Maybe an anonymous, detailed, plausible, (but secretly fictional

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

2003-09-27 Thread Ed Reed
Cryptonomicon.Net - Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy available? Maybe an anonymous, detailed, plausible, (but secretly fictional) blog describing how someone did this in their podunk

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

2003-09-25 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=Newsfile=printsid=463 Cryptonomicon.Net - Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy available

[cdr] Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

2003-09-25 Thread Roy M. Silvernail
On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:46, Major Variola (ret) wrote: Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular imagination. Is Tom Clancy available? Maybe an anonymous, detailed, plausible, (but secretly fictional) blog describing how someone did this in their podunk

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Shostack
stealdemocracy.com, a new voting machine company. Sell machines that explicitly let you steal elections. Get some press. Adam On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:08:38AM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: | Notice they did this to Chaum, too... | | Cheers, | RAH | | --- begin forwarded text | | | Status: U

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

2003-08-14 Thread Freematt357
Some effort should be made to communicate the danger of e-ballots to the various grassroots, political organizations interested in voting issues. We really have to get a wider audience made aware of the tremendous danger. And somebody should work on producing an alternative hybrid voting

Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread R. A. Hettinga
list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 23:31:49 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [johnmacsgroup] Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference Computer Voting Expert Ousted From Elections Conference Lynn Landes freelance journalist www.EcoTalk.org Denver CO Aug 1 - Dr

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

2003-08-14 Thread Freematt357
In a message dated 8/6/2003 12:51:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having Mercuri and Chaum ejected is the best thing that could have happened. Absolutely correct..You should try to think up ways to get them to be even more hostile to them. Regards, Matt-

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Adam Shostack
, I know, as our | democracy gets replaced by a kleptocracy, but what can you do? | | Maybe she should set up stealdemocracy.com, a new voting machine | company. Sell machines that explicitly let you steal elections. Get | some press. | | A better solution, already available to voters

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Harmon Seaver
Here's another one. On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:20:30PM -0700, Steve Schear wrote: At 09:46 2003-08-06 -0700, Tim May wrote: I was intensely opposed to the gibberish about how the Republicans stole the Florida vote, for multiple reasons. First, the Dems wanted to change the rules after

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread R. A. Hettinga
At 1:56 PM -0400 8/6/03, R. A. Hettinga wrote: cannot prevent -3 negative miscount can prevent of course. Maybe I should apply for a job as a school superintendent... Cheers, RAH -- - R. A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Tim May
by a kleptocracy, but what can you do? Maybe she should set up stealdemocracy.com, a new voting machine company. Sell machines that explicitly let you steal elections. Get some press. It's a meme we might want to spread: They stole the election. (They) I was intensely opposed to the gibberish about how

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Conference

2003-08-14 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 05:48 PM 8/6/03 -0400, Adam Shostack wrote: Huh? Voters don't control the security of the voting system any more than we control the security of the credit rating/id theft system. The only way to show vote fraud would be to get enough voters to document that the State lied. That would depend

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

2003-08-14 Thread mfidelman
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And somebody should work on producing an alternative hybrid voting machine that is hard copy paper verifiable. I think we have to give these local governments a viable alternative, a machine that can't be used for Machiavellian machinations. I

Re: Computer Voting Expert, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Ousted From Elections Confer...

2003-08-10 Thread Harmon Seaver
Why is it people are not using normal quoting procedure lately? This is at least the third message today I've seen like this -- no way to tell who said what. On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:58:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 8/6/2003 12:51:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

Re: Scientists question electronic voting

2003-03-07 Thread David Howe
or (as it is oftentimes neglected) the machine made an error in printing the vote. Or more probably, as seen in the american case - the user didn't understand the interface and voted wrongly. of course, you could avoid this by stating that the voting software displays the vote and gives a yes/no choice

oops! Voting software firm gets sued.

2003-02-27 Thread Sunder
authority responsible for certifying voting machines and the U.S. General Accounting Office. He claims the firing was clearly in retaliation for whistleblowing. Although more than a year and a half has passed since he lost his job, Spillane said he decided to file the suit because he believed