Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
I always thought that “sleepovers†were beyond the limit of good security. In a court election contest in Wilkinson Co Mississippi the county Circuit Clerk pled the fifth amendment to several questions. One of the questions was “Is it true you had a pre-election party that voting machines were taken to?â€
The results of the Ohio study are stunning with regards to the ES&S iVotronic DRE. The study found that a voter or poll worker can easily recalibrate the touch-screen; access control can be defeated by someone with a small magnet and a PDA or cell phone; and there is a back door entry that can be gained bypassing password requirements.
The Colorado SOS is now telling the media that they may be able to use some of the decertified voting systems by patching the software. Patches require testing and certification. Is he getting nervous?
Links to those stories, and the other notable voting news today, all posted neatly below as usual…
- AZ: Opinion – Secretive electronic voting unacceptable
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/216630 - AZ: Pima County – BREAKING: Judge Orders Release of Pima County, AZ Voting Database
https://bradblog.com/?p=5457 - CA: San Joaquin County – Decertification ‘fiasco’ sends SJ to paper ballots
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/155511.html - CO: Sec of State decertifies voting machines in Denver, Jefferson, Arapahoe counties
http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/2160/2/ - CO: State decertifies voting machines
County officials livid; move ‘could cost taxpayers millions’
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/12/17/121807_1a_voting.html - CO: Coffman: Voting machines don’t measure up
http://origin.denverpost.com/ci_7744376 - CO: Voting machines fail state tests
Pueblo among other Southern Colorado counties to have machines decertified.
http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1197961370/1 - CO: Political leaders, county clerks left with questions, concerns
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/18/political-leaders-county-clerks-left-with/ - CO: E-voting veto makes mess
Decision to decertify electronic systems sends counties scrambling
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/18/e-voting-machines-tossed-08/ - CO: Many Colorado voting machines are decertified, throwing presidential votes in disarray
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/18/america/Colorado-Voting-Machines.php - CO: Coffman decertifies election scanners
http://www.timescall.com/News_Story.asp?id=5257 - CO: Voting gear out for count
http://origin.denverpost.com/rapids/ci_7746932 - CO: Coffman: Voting machines could be fixed in time
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_7751909 - CO: Coffman: Colo. could use voting machines OK’d in other states
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/dec/18/colo-could-use-voting-machines-okd-other-states/ - CO: Boulder County – Voting machines flunk
Boulder County clerk says impact of state’s decertification not yet clear
http://dailycamera.com/news/2007/dec/18/voting-machines-flunk/ - CO: Garfield County – County voting machines lose certification
http://www.postindependent.com/article/20071218/VALLEYNEWS/970030834 - CO: Mesa county may have to seek new voting methods
http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7510445 - CO: Moffat County – Voting machines banned
Paper, absentee ballot equipment in Moffat County decertified
http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2007/dec/18/voting_machines_banned/ - FL: Judge throws out Florida voting law
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/349183.html - FL: Judge Reverses Florida’s Anti-Voter Registration Law!
https://bradblog.com/?p=5456 - FL: Hillsborough County – Hillsborough dawdles on vote switch
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/12/18/Opinion/Hillsborough_dawdles_.shtml - MS: Wilkinson County election contest restarts
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2007/dec/18/wilkinson-county-election-contest-restarts/ - NY: Editorial – Ohio study shows vulnerability in electronic ballot systems
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071218/OPINION/712180320/1005/OPINION - OH: Report: Magnet and PDA Sufficient to Change Votes on Voting Machine
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/12/report-magnet-a.html - OH: Partisanship will enter decision on how Ohioans vote
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=391868&Category=14&subCategoryID= - OH: Editorial – It’s too soon to turn voting upside down
http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=391858&Category=3&subCategoryID= - OH: 1,000 pages of bad news: Ohio e-voting report released
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071217-1000-pages-of-bad-news-ohio-e-voting-report-released.html - OH: Governor backs election overhaul in ’08; critics say no way
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/12/18/machine_folo.ART_ART_12-18-07_A1_HE8QDTI.html?sid=101 - OH: Opinion – Integrity greatest factor in elections
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071218/OPINION01/712180332/1014/OPINION - OH: Ohio Study: Scariest E-Voting Security Report Yet
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1236 - OH: Ohio to stay with voting systems deemed unreliable in Colo.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/12/ohio_to_stay_with_voting_syste_1.html - OH: Justice Center at NYU Law School Faults Ohio on Voting
http://chronicle.com/news/article/3657/justice-center-at-nyu-law-school-faults-ohio-on-voting - OH: E-voting activists praise Ohio plan to fix e-voting system
But they fear quick ‘cures’ might worsen problems before ’08 presidential vote
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=it_in_government&articleId=9053479&taxonomyId=69&intsrc=kc_top - OH: Cuyahoga County elections board takes no action on voting machine swap
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2007/12/cuyahoga_county_elections_boar.html - OH: Cuyahoga County – Elections board pressured to change
http://www.chroniclet.com/2007/12/18/elections-board-pressured-to-change - OH: Cuyahoga County – Election board balks on dumping touch-screen voting
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1197970406267740.xml&coll=2&thispage=1 - OH: Washington County – Election reforms could pare precinct list
http://www.mariettatimes.com/news/story/new54_1218200780410.asp - TN: State election systems study calls for paper audit trail
http://southernstudies.org/facingsouth/2007/12/state-election-systems-study-calls-for.asp - VA: Spotsylvania County – Jett still wins in Spotsy recount
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/122007/12182007/341930 - WV: Taylor County Keeping Electronic Voting System
http://www.wdtv.com/news/local/12608086.html
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Hey John, I was checking out VotersUnite website (like I always do from time to time. And noticed some things that are wrong:
Take Action. It’s time to call for accountability in the machinery of our electoral system. Please sign the petition in support of VoterAction’s call for Congressional investigations into blatant and destructive commercial fraud in the electronic voting machine industry.
The link to “Please Sign The Petition” Ain’t going to anything useful. (Unless trying to guess the Admin logon for Bradblog is useful), Maybe you should have logout of BB before setting up the URL link? I’m second guessing you here.
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I am not sure if you perhaps meant to go here for the article,
https://bradblog.com/?p=5298
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And the petition,
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2671/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12354
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Thanks for your work in the past and your attention to this now.
~phil
John, Brad:
From behind the Orange Curtain… an article about GOP attempts to disenfranchise black voters in Muncie IN
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/19/9617/9853/896/424204
Phil
Thank you. The link is fixed and we found another one while we were at it. Much appreciated.