Maryland ACLU Board and Black Box Voting Issue

[tanstaafl]

I just had lunch with a member of the Maryland ACLU board and told him everything I knew about the touch screen / black box voting issues which have been going on. I talked about Georgia and Diebold, etc. He sounded sincerely interested and was going to bring up to the board.

[shirlden]

1. Good on ya

We have to talk to anyone who will sit and listen. And if they won't sit, we can handcuff them to a lamp post.

:bounce:

[Woodstock]

2. Here is some more info from the Baltimore Sun

...{James "Chip" DiPaula, state budget secretary} said Diebold Election Systems has already incorporated three new security features to correct problems that critics of the touch-screen machines say made them vulnerable to massive election fraud.

Other "vulnerabilities" cited by the consultant, Science Application International Corp., will be corrected by security procedures to be implemented by state and local election boards, DiPaula said. "We believe this will ensure proper and accurate (results) and a system full of integrity," he said.

The report did not satisfy Avi Rubin, an associate professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University, whose study released in July prompted national debate over the security of electronic voting systems. Rubin, lead researcher on the report, said at the time that the Diebold system was so flawed it could be easily manipulated.

Rubin noted today that the consultant's report said the existing system "is at high risk of compromise" and that it confirmed some of the major flaws he found in the voting machines. "I think the logical thing to do at this point is to suspend plans to use that system," he said.

David Dill, a Stanford University computer science professor, said he still has concerns about the machines, including the possibility that a malicious code could be inserted by a programmer at Diebold.

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-machines0925,0,81577.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

[revcarol]

3. Out of 12 weak points, they corrected three (they say.)

Hey, they must be secure now.<sarcasm>