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

[Donald Fraser]

Bob Jonkman of FVC just sent this Email ... you should link up:

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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.

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...

- --Bob.

On 18 July 2016 at 12:16, Jon Bathmaker <jon.bathmaker at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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,
>
> 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.
>
> 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...
>
> - --Bob.
>
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> UofW CACR: Diego F. Aranha - Security analysis of Brazilian voting
> machineshttp://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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