RE: My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County by Avi Rubin

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Forwarded from: Jim Patton <jim.patton () ipvalue com>

I voted on Super Tuesday using the new devices and after reading 
Mr. Rubin's report, I would have to agree with his concerns.

Without a reliable and secure duplicate of each individual voter's
election choices, I can see where problems can occur and security can
be breached.

I believe that the integrity of our voting process must be guarded
more closely than the treasures held at Fort Knox.

While I believe that the process of voting flowed rather smoothly and
I was left with a positive feeling about the use of these machines, I
was reminded of the old saying:

"If something just seems to be too good to be true, it likely is too
good to be true."



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Subject: [ISN] My experience as an Election Judge in Baltimore County by
Avi Rubin

http://www.avirubin.com/judge.html

It is now 10:30 pm, and I have been up since 5 a.m. this morning.  
Today, I served as an election judge in the primary election, and I am
writing down my experience now, despite being extremely tired, as
everything is fresh in my mind, and this was one of the most
incredible days in my life.

I first became embroiled in the current national debate on evoting
security when Dan Wallach of Rice University and I, along with
Computer Scientist Yoshi Kohno and my Ph.D. student Adam Stubblefield
released a report analyzing the software in Diebold's Accuvote voting
machines.

Although there were four of us on the project, perhaps because I was
the most senior of the group, the report became widely associate with
me, and people began referring to it as the "Hopkins report" or even
in some cases the "Rubin report". I became the target of much
criticism from Maryland and Georgia election officials who were deeply
committed to these machines, and of course, of the vendor. The biggest
criticism that I received was that I am an academic scientist and that
academics do not "know siccum" about elections, as Doug Lewis from the
Election Center put very eloquently.

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