Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail provides no security for computerized voting: a study from U Conn

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Thursday August 02, 2007 · 4:37 PM PDT

2007/08/02 · 16:37

Courtesy of BradBlog: Researchers at the University of Connecticut have concluded that the VVPAT, heralded by supporters of the Holt Bill, is meaningless as verification of a voter's selection. Using only information available to the public, experts at the University of Connecticut were able to change a voter's selection within the Diebold computerized voting machine, while presenting a paper trail which gave the voter the false impression that his vote was recorded correctly. Here is the report.

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Would you support hand-counted paper ballots for all elections if they were inexpensive, efficient and could accomodate voting for persons with disabilities?

79 votes Vote Now!

Would you support hand-counted paper ballots for all elections if they were inexpensive, efficient and could accomodate voting for persons with disabilities?

Yes

58 votes

19 votes

Maybe

2 votes

Holt Bill losing support

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Thursday July 19, 2007 · 9:04 AM PDT

2007/07/19 · 09:04

Ding dong, the Holt Bill's dead. The Holt Bill (HR 811), a bill originally designed to restore transparency and accountability to elections, underwent a makeover in committee and emerged as a Frankenstein's monster of voting reform. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was the first to withdraw his support of the amended bill several weeks ago. Other democrats are now joining him in opposition to the bill in its current form.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) describes serious concerns about HR 811 on this post from Brad Blog.

Paul Lehto reports on DU that the Holt Bill has been declared dead. Even Rush Holt himself is considering withdrawal of his support for the bill because of its pro-DRE (Direct Recording Electronic) industry revisions.

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Friday June 15, 2007 · 6:37 AM PDT

2007/06/15 · 06:37

As part of a "turn back the clock on civil rights" movement in government, star Republican vote-suppressors like Brad Schlozman, "Thor" Hearne, Tim Griffin, and "Spaz" VonSpakovsky have made caging and false accusations of minority voter fraud tools of their trade.

Perhaps unwittingly (giving the good Senator the benefit of the doubt), Dianne Feinstein has introduced a new method of minority voter suppression into pending legislation.

I apologize to anyone, including Senator Feinstein, who may have taken offense to the earlier version of my diary and the implication that the Senator meant to promote voting suppression. I was simply being ironic and I did not make that clear. All hurt feelings aside, the consequences of voter disenfranchisement are the same, whether those provisions are included deliberately (as in Jim Crow) or unwittingly (as in HAVA). My goal is to bring attention to the problem, not to show anyone up.

Senator Feinstein's S. 1487, the sequel to HAVA includes the following:

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What is the most effective way to disenfranchise minority voters?

Use caging (purge minority voters while they serve in Iraq)

Have US Attorneys make specious claims of voter fraud to decrease registration and to purge legitimate voters

Stack the DoJ Civil Rights division with Vote-Suppression Con-Artists

Use double standards for undervoting between minority communities and white communities

Require a picture ID to vote

Use direct minority voter intimidation

Game the voting machines and refuse to re-count when there are questionable results (not an issue for DRE's since there is nothing to re-count)

Restrict the number of voting machines in minority districts

Use the Corporate Media to attack as "conspiracy theorists" any person who suggests that there exists a pattern of disenfranchisement against minority voters

What the hell, why not do 'em all?

36 votes Vote Now!

What is the most effective way to disenfranchise minority voters?

Use caging (purge minority voters while they serve in Iraq)

0 votes

Have US Attorneys make specious claims of voter fraud to decrease registration and to purge legitimate voters

1 vote

Stack the DoJ Civil Rights division with Vote-Suppression Con-Artists

2 votes

Use double standards for undervoting between minority communities and white communities

0 votes

Require a picture ID to vote

2 votes

Use direct minority voter intimidation

0 votes

Game the voting machines and refuse to re-count when there are questionable results (not an issue for DRE's since there is nothing to re-count)

2 votes

Restrict the number of voting machines in minority districts

4 votes

Use the Corporate Media to attack as "conspiracy theorists" any person who suggests that there exists a pattern of disenfranchisement against minority voters

1 vote

What the hell, why not do 'em all?

24 votes

Framing 102: Global Overheating

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Wednesday May 16, 2007 · 4:03 AM PDT

2007/05/16 · 04:03

As the Northeastern United States turns prematurely tropical (it is way too early for me to enjoy the sweltering heat of August when it's only mid-May), my thoughts turn to the spinmeisters of the Republican Noise Machine and their flippant denial of the greenhouse effect on our climate.

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How should we refer to greenhouse gas climate change?

11 votes Vote Now!

How should we refer to greenhouse gas climate change?

Global Overheating

4 votes

Greenhouse Suffocation

1 vote

Baked Alaska

1 vote

Unpleasant Under Gas

0 votes

The Great Defrosting

0 votes

The Big Melt

2 votes

Hell on Earth

3 votes

Arid Extra Dry

0 votes

The benefit of the doubt

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Friday May 04, 2007 · 1:18 AM PDT

2007/05/04 · 01:18

When do we stop giving George Bush, Alberto Gonzales, Dick Cheney or Condoleeza Rice the benefit of the doubt?

How many fabrications must this administration create before we can call their behavior a deliberate pattern of deception?

When will US Senators start using the "L" words (lies, lying, liars) to describe the testimony of white house officials before congress?

The answer, my friend, is below the fold.

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30 votes Show Results

Impeach Cheney and Bush now.

30 votes Vote Now!

Impeach Cheney and Bush now.

Yes

28 votes

2 votes

Beware the Holt Bill

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Sunday April 29, 2007 · 4:13 PM PDT

2007/04/29 · 16:13

As a response to DRE's (direct recording electronic voting machines), which are proving themselves to be as unreliable and corruptible as voting integrity activists said they would be, Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey has introduced legislation to correct the problem and require VVPB's (voter verified paper ballots) as the gold standard for elections.

Unfortunately, the Holt Bill contains a provision far more dangerous to our elections system than unverifiable DRE's.

To see the assassin hiding in this Trojan horse, read below the fold...

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Wednesday September 27, 2006 · 8:02 PM PDT

2006/09/27 · 20:02

It looks as if all conventional media are bottled up in the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy, as public opinion continues to spin against us liberal bloggers.

Outfunded, and with a fraction of the media outlet, we liberal bloggers must rely on our creativity to overcome this right-wing media barricade.

I ask myself, "Self? What sort of big event would attract media lenses and microphones? How can Democrats attract the media, so that more reality-based politicians get their messages to the ears, eyeballs and brains of everyday Americans?" Read More

Rain Delay

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Saturday September 02, 2006 · 10:24 AM PDT

2006/09/02 · 10:24

When the news gets too disturbing, it's hard to talk about current events in a dispassionate way. The Constitution is in flames, the Treasury door is wide open to looting and the pilot of our nation has locked himself in the cockpit and seems to be ignoring the control tower.

When reality bites, I reach for fantasy.

As a remedy to my bush-fatigue, I will imagine that the bush administration is a baseball team...
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Paul Waldman's "Tough Love" approach on Iraq

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Tuesday August 29, 2006 · 6:39 AM PDT

2006/08/29 · 06:39

I am a George Lakoff fan, who still likes the Strict Parent metaphor for the neocon ideology. What the Strict Parent will always say is that tough love is better than over-indulgent love.

The US is giving Iraq over-indulgent love, like a weak, can't-say-no parent.

Better to be a tough-love parent. Let the Iraqis work out their own problems. We'll give them a small allowance and a limited amount of emotional and military support.

Read the quote below the fold. Read More

Santorum hires adolescent boys to harass Casey

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Saturday August 26, 2006 · 5:51 PM PDT

2006/08/26 · 17:51

The campaign to re-elect Rick Santorum for US Senate is pulling out all of the stops. At a recent campaign event for Bob Casey, teenage supporters of Rick Santorum heckled and obstructed the Democratic candidate for US Senate. By report of a witness, the unruly Santorum supporters were as young as 13 years old. When a Republican official attending the event was asked if the children were hired for the purpose of demonstration, he would not comment.

As Mr. Casey made his way from his vehicle to the Star City Diner, one of the Santorum demonstrators became overzealous with his picket sign, and a scuffle ensued.

See link below fold. Read More

Do they think that we are that stupid?

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Friday August 25, 2006 · 4:55 AM PDT

2006/08/25 · 04:55

As a novice in the fields of computer sciences and politics, I have a simple observer's perspective on the public debate over the trustworthiness of computerized voting machines.

In an uncontroversial report, the academic scientific community has demonstrated the insecurity of current systems. Basically, this is due to the voting machine's inability to verify votes independently, as in, outside of the corruptible electronic box itself.

What, to me, is plain to see, is that government bureaucrats and corporate marketing types are telling the world's most respected computer scientists that scientific results, showing the vulnerability of voting software, are wrong! Read More

How many Iraqi children = one JonBenet Ramsey?

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Tuesday August 22, 2006 · 7:50 PM PDT

2006/08/22 · 19:50

There are moments when the repressed existential part of my mind must come to terms with an irony so grotesque, that it is forced to awaken, to contemplate this irony in the context of the universe, eternity, etc.

This creates a conflict in my mind. My mind prefers simply to accept the insensitivity of my society at face value. It doesn't want to look too far beneath the surface of my culture.

But when so much attention is given to the, albeit tragic, death of a lone, albeit adorable, 6 year-old, while thousands of Iraqi children, women and men continue to be brutally murdered, with no outcry from the mainstream media... well, I just gotta say something. Read More

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Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail provides no security for computerized voting: a study from U Conn

Holt Bill losing support

Senator Feinstein unwittingly introduces discriminatory voting legislation

Framing 102: Global Overheating

The benefit of the doubt

Beware the Holt Bill

Strategery: Start the 2008 Presidential Campaign, now!

Rain Delay

Paul Waldman's "Tough Love" approach on Iraq

Santorum hires adolescent boys to harass Casey

Do they think that we are that stupid?

How many Iraqi children = one JonBenet Ramsey?