A correction: Ed Felten of Princeton is NOT on the Sarasota audit team.

[eomer]

I have posted in several threads that Ed Felten is on the team that's currently reviewing the source code of iVotronics DREs used in Sarasota. It turns out that he is not. I emailed him and he was kind enough to respond and confirm a report I had seen that he was NOT on the team. He also told me that David Wagner and Matt Bishop, both of UC Berkeley, ARE working on the team.

Even though it is disappointing that Prof. Felten is not in fact looking at ES&S source code, at least it is confirmed that Wagner and Bishop are.

Edit: Here is the Statement of Work that listed Felten on the team and led to my error.

[Bill Bored]

1. That's nice. What about Shamos?

Could you please go back to that last thread and see if there are any unresolved issues we had discussed?

[eomer]

2. Michael Shamos is apparently on the team.

He was quoted to that effect in the Bradenton Herald:

Yasinsac declined to reveal any of the team's findings thus far, citing a confidentiality agreement. But a Pittsburgh newspaper this week quoted one team member, Mike Shamos of Carnegie Mellon, as saying nothing amiss had been found thus far.

"(The work) is not complete, and we might yet find something," Shamos said in Tuesday's Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "It's not clear what caused the problem."

Shamos also was quoted as saying he believed poor ballot design was a likely culprit for the undervotes. Other researchers have drawn the same conclusion, which Jennings disputes.

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16440725.htm

[eomer]

3. Bill, I looked back at that thread and don't see anything we left hanging.

I think we eventually agreed about the various possibilities of a disguised straight-ticket choice in the BDF.

You did post one question that I didn't reply to: what if only the investigator and not a developer is present? My answer is that the investigators are developers, at least Wagner and Bishop are. They both hold the position of Associate Professor of Computer Science at Berkeley so I'm sure they can read them some source code.

Here's that thread if you want to point me to something else:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=463052&mesg_id=463052