Article: 'Daily Voting News' For August 02, 2007

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org Officials in Mississippi are the first to speak out and tell their voters that even though the voters are forced to use the same Diebold Direct Recording Electronic voting machines that recently failed security testing in California and Florida there are no problems in Mississippi. It probably has to do with an upcoming primary election next Tuesday. What a tangled web we weave.....Matt Blaze, the leader of the California Source Code Team that looked at Sequoia code had this to say about the results from inspection of all three vendors code, " Unfortunately, while finding many of the vulnerabilities may have been straightforward enough, fixing them won't be. The root problems are architectural. All three reviewed products are, in effect, large-scale distributed systems that have many of their security-critical functions performed by equipment sent out into the field. In particular, the integrity of the vote tallies depends not only on the central computers at the county elections offices, but also on the voting machines (and software) at the polling places, removable media that pass through multiple hands, and complex human processes whose security implications may not be clear to the people who perform them. In other words, the designs of these systems expose generously wide "attack surfaces" to anyone who seeks to compromise them. And the defenses are dangerously fragile -- almost any bug, anywhere, has potential security implications."...

NAtional: Why VVPAT 'Paper Trials' are Not Enough LINK

NAtional: Viewpoint: The Devil Is In the Details LINK

NAtional: Viewpoint: Slow Down, You're Moving Too Fast LINK

NAtional: Report: post-election audits needed to ensure election integrity LINK

NAtional: Democrats Plan to Assess Voting State by State LINK

NAtional: Paper-trail perspective LINK

NAtional: NYTimes: The 'Revolving Door' of Partisan Election Officials and the Voting Machine Industry LINK

CA: California voting systems code review now released Almost as eagerly anticipated as the new Harry Potter book. LINK

CA: Shame on Them! CA. Election Officials Attack Their Chief LINK

CA: Thank you, California Secretary of State Bowen! LINK

CA: Researchers recommend tougher post-election audits LINK

CA: Computer voting machines on trial County officials are confident of security, but tests show otherwise LINK

CA: Why all California's electronic voting systems should be decertified LINK

CA: Columnist - Daniel Weintraub: Bowen weighs future of 'black box' voting in state LINK

CA: Secretary Bowen's review of voting systems LINK

CA: Why Many Californians Don't Trust the Vendors of Electronic Voting Systems and Election Officials Who Defend Them LINK

CA: Editorial - Voting fraud six months removed? LINK

CA: Butte County - County clerk challenges voting machine test LINK

CA: Riverside County - E-voting questioned LINK

CT: Long-Due Voting Change LINK

FL: Diebold E-Voting Flaws Could Compromise Elections Florida isn't crazy about optical scan voting devices slated to be used in the state's presidential primary elections next year. LINK

FL: Test Finds Florida Faces E-Voting Problems LINK

FL: Opinion - Yet another voting headache At least this time, the flaws were found before the election LINK

FL: The Plot Thickens for Electronic Voting LINK

FL: More voting machine problems: Florida, again LINK

FL: Volusia County - Voting machines to stay put Volusia responds to reported security worries about taking equipment home. LINK

GA: Voter group criticizes paper ballot trial LINK

GA: VoterGA Gives One Year Update on E-Voting Lawsuit LINK

GA: Handel rehashes voter ID ploy LINK

MS: Be wary of those who offer voter ID as a fix-all for elections LINK

MS: State agency insists Miss. voting machines OK LINK

NJ: Activists cast vote for scanners to replace electronic balloting LINK

NJ: Judge won't order voting machines testing LINK

NJ: Sussex County - Voter backup system questioned LINK

NY: Our Worst Nightmare Is Our Reality LINK

OH: Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Ballots Illegally Destroyed, Missing in At Least 56 of 88 Counties... LINK

OH: The criminal cover-up of Ohio's stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic LINK

TN: Election Commission Hopes To Make Voting Quicker LINK

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