[fvc-wat-disc] U.S. Voting Machines

[Jon Bathmaker]

As you are probably aware, there has been extensive voter suppression 
and election fraud so far this year in the Democratic Primary which 
makes heavy use of EVMs.  If you're interested you may read all about it 
at the youtube channels of Redacted Tonight and the Sane Progressive.  
There are also various lawsuits going on challenging the results in CA, 
NY, NJ etc etc.

With current technology I do not think that it is even theoretically 
possible to have a completely secret electronic ballot (Byron please 
weigh in if I'm wrong).   More to the point, the job of validating the 
voting machines' results is huge and I'm doubtful if it could be done, 
other than by exit polling.

Best,
Best,

Jon
*The Climate is no longer just a Crisis  . . .  it's a FREAKING EMERGENCY*

On 7/18/2016 2:01 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> For anyone interested in Electronic Voting -- one of things on which
> the Special Committee on Electoral Reform will make a recommendation
> in December.
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> As with every report from computer scientists, I expect this will
> provide plenty of evidence that electronic voting is not feasible. I
> hope the Committee listens...
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> - --Bob.
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> UofW CACR: Diego F. Aranha - Security analysis of Brazilian voting
> machines
> http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/seminars.html
> University of Waterloo Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research
>
> Diego Aranha is visiting Waterloo. Please join us for a seminar this
> Thursday July 21 at 2:00 pm in MC6486. You can find the abstract and
> Diego's bio below.
>
> Title: Security analysis of Brazilian voting machines
>
> Abstract: This talk presents a security analysis of the Brazilian
> voting machine software based on our participation in official
> restricted tests organized in 2012 by the national electoral
> authority. During the event, vulnerabilities in the software were
> detected and explored, with significant impact on ballot secrecy and
> integrity. We present scenarios where these vulnerabilities allow
> electoral fraud and suggestions to restore the security of the
> affected mechanisms. We also discuss how a crowdsourcing approach was
> used to partially verify the transmission of results in 2014 and
> improvements for upcoming elections.
>
> Bio: Diego F. Aranha is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of
> Computing at the University of Campinas (Unicamp). He holds a PhD
> degree in Computer Science from the University of Campinas and has
> worked as a visiting PhD student for 1 year at the University of
> Waterloo, and for 2 years as Adjunct Professor in the Department of
> Computer Science at the University of Brasília. His professional
> experience is on Cryptography and Computer Security, with special
> interest in the efficient implementation of cryptographic algorithms
> and security analysis of real world systems. Received the Google Latin
> America Research Award for research on privacy and MIT TechReview's
> Innovators Under 35 Brazil for his work in electronic voting.
>
> When
> Thu Jul 21, 2016 2pm – 3pm Eastern Time
> Where
> MC 6486, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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