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Re: The great Sarasota undervote mystery
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 06:38:14 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Paul_Ferguson () trendmicro com Date: May 3, 2007 8:19:03 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] The great Sarasota undervote mystery Hi Dave, For IP...
From: Stephen Unger <unger () cs columbia edu> Date: May 3, 2007 5:54:37 PM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: The great Sarasota undervote mystery There have been several studies of why so many people in Sarasota County went to the polls and then appeared not to have voted in a hotly contested congressional race. Was this a boycott? Did they not notice the race because of bad ballot design? Was this due to a program bug or hardware design error in the e-voting system? Was it the result of a deliberate effort to corrupt the system--that may not have worked quite as planned? In any event, this case illustrates a number of ways e-voting systems can go astray without leaving much of a trail. A report of an investigation of the source code by a high powered team was recently published, followed by a criticism of that report. The problem remains unresolved, tho so far the courts have upheld the official verdict. I just posted my own analysis at http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/myBlog/endsandmeansblog.html
For what its worth, it looks like Florida is scrapping their touch-screen electronic voting machines altogether, in favor of optical scanners for manual voter cards: [snip] In a major shift on e-voting that could ripple to other states, the Florida Legislature today voted to replace nearly all of the state's touch-screen voting systems with optical scan devices. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who initially offered up the bill mandating a change in e-voting systems earlier this year, applauded the Florida Legislature for acting after the state House approved the measure. It had already been OK'd by the state Senate. The law mandates the replacement of touch-screen systems with optical scan devices and also moves up the date of Florida's presidential primary to the last Tuesday in January. In 2008, that would be Jan. 29. [snip] http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& articleId=9018595 Cheers, - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Network Architect, Office of the CTO Trend Micro, Inc., San Jose, CA paul_ferguson () trendmicro com TREND MICRO EMAIL NOTICEThe information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system.
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