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From: seclists at stratitec.com (defiance) Subject: Will a vote for John Kerry be counted by a Hart InterCivic eSlate3000 in Honolulu? So why did you put yourself at risk and use it? You had a choice didn't you? defiance On Wednesday 20 October 2004 8:24 pm, Jason Coombs PivX Solutions wrote: > I just voted for John Kerry at a walk-in absentee ballot polling place in > Honolulu County using an eSlate3000 (unit serial number A05A0B) made by > Hart Intercivic: http://www.hartintercivic.com > > I was told by the official who gave me the choice of voting on paper or > voting electronically that the electronic voting machines weren't supposed > to be here yet, but that since they arrived in time for the 2004 election, > they were being used anyway. > > Will my vote be counted? That depends on a number of unknowns, such as > whether or not the unit on which my vote was cast subsequently > malfunctions, rendering the entire vote tabulating memory card corrupt. > > I did not receive a paper printout following the submission of my > electronic ballot. > > Excluding the obvious possibility that fraud may occur, either to stuff the > electronic 'ballot box' with false votes, or to intentionally destroy or > fail to count votes for a particular candidate, there are risks inherent to > electronic voting that do not exist in the same way with paper ballots. And > although there are technical safeguards possible that seem like common > sense, these safeguards continue to be ignored. Why? > > Will we ever see common sense safeguards added to the electronic voting > process? > > A search for known security vulnerabilities or potential flaws in voting > equipment manufactured and sold by Hart InterCivic turns up: > > http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=31&contentid=1570 > > Prior to casting my vote, I provided a written 'application' to vote > containing my current address and other contact information. Election > officials have every bit of information necessary to inform me in the event > of a memory card failure or other malfunction that causes my electronic > vote not to be counted properly. > > We know the very equipment that I just used to cast my vote has > malfunctioned in the past. There have never been any reports that any voter > has ever been allowed to revote following the loss of their electronic vote > database record. Why not? > > I find it absurd that common sense solutions to electronic voting problems > are not being used. The vote I just cast could be made available for my > anonymous review after it has been counted. For that matter, all votes made > by all voters could be aggregated and published such that any voter could > confirm that the vote that was counted was in fact the vote that they cast. > > Such a safeguard would ensure that no fraud could occur without timely > detection by those voters who are directly affected, and no vote would go > uncounted or be miscounted by mistake unless voters choose not to perform > such data validation. > > If we're going to allow these electronic voting devices in our elections, > then we the people must be empowered to become the all volunteer quality > assurance army that validates the data output. > > Reasonable people can live with the necessity to trust election officials > to be honest, and the criminal justice procedures to hold them accountable > when they are not, but who are we supposed to hold accountable when > equipment failures and flawed computer disaster recovery planning result in > the secret exclusion of members of the public from access to their right to > vote? > > If anyone has any further information about Hart InterCivic and the > eSlate3000, please contact me directly. > > Sincerely, > > Jason Coombs > jasonc@...ence.org > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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