[FRIAM] voting machine tampering

[Robert Holmes]

Not really no. About 30% of the installed machines are the Diebold
touch-screen model that does NOT give you a printout. There's no paper trail
and absolutely no way to check that what the person voted for is what the
machine recorded. In addition, Diebold won't release source code because
it's proprietary. And the Independent Testing Authority refuses to release
details of its test program. And anyway, in some states ITA testing is
voluntary - vendors only need to provide a letter that their machines are
capable of passing the tests.

So from a computer science or security perspective, how robust do you think
this system is?

Robert

On 11/6/06, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:
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> Won't the electronic voting at least provide a hope for analysis,
> especially of "irregularities"?
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