Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Dan Rather will be Reporting on Electronic Voter Fraud tonight.
At 7 PM ET on CNN’s Situation Room Rather will be promoting his hour long investigation into ‘the trouble with touch screens’.
Dan Rather will be exposing how defective electronic voting machines have altered the outcome of multiple elections.
Rather is now doing hour long broadcasts on HDNet. Dan’s show can be viewed online.
It should be an enlightening hour that will be available for viewing on demand after its original air date. So pass this one on.
Remember, it doesn’t matter for whom you vote, what matters is who counts your vote.
You won’t want to miss this.
Labels: Dan Rather, eballot, electronic voting, voting fraud
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Don’t Miss ‘The Trouble with Touch Screens’ Dan Rather
Sunday, July 29, 2007
The people of California have been voting in national elections since 1850 one would think that in 157 years they might be expecting the 2008 Presidential primary.
After all they have had more than a century and a half to find a safe and secure way to cast a vote. They should have seen this election coming.
But, the Secretary of State will now have 5 days to make a decision regarding the unassailability of California Votes in the February Presidential Primary.
Voters in California are finding security for there votes is merely an ‘add-on”.
In the same way side impact airbags might be optional on some models, voter security may be optional.
I like to think of options as…you know…things that are optional, not imperative.
Security for my vote, I consider to be imperative like…oh say the stirring wheel on my car.
Secretary of State, Debra Bowen was given a security report on nearly all of California voting machine models on Friday. In order for Bowen to ‘decertify and of the electronic voting machines she has to do so by this coming Friday.
California laws state these matters must be complete 6 months before the, Feb.5 2008, Presidential Primary.
Scant time indeed to make a final decision which many people consider to be
life and death, while others judge their right to a free and honest vote the bedrock of democracy.
Following the money, as is always the ’smart’ thing to do, we can’t be surprised to learn that the least egar, least supportive of a free and honest vote are the very elections officials though-out California. Most are unwilling to toss millions of dollars spent on unsecured electronic voting systems down the toilet in favor of an honest and accurate, secure vote for the people of California.
The real mystery comes from why the non-secure systems were purchased in the first place. The word Diebold may be explanation enough.
On Monday in the state capital UC Davis investigators will present their finding on the security of the voting systems UC Davis’ computer science hacking team tested.
Representatives from the electronic voting machine corporations will be allowed to refute the UC Davis findings. Undoubtedly these companies will want to rebuff …as in re-polishing a turd type buffing…
Although Matt Bishop, US Davis computer science professor who led the hacking team, said he found no malicious source code he was ’surprised by the weakness of the security measures, both physical and electronic protecting the voting systems.
How long it would take to write and install ‘malicious source code’ in unsecured voting machines. The elections still 6 months away.
Bishops team of hackers found not only high-tech ways to breach the systems security, but low tech put your hand in situations at the polling places.
Bishop added they been given more time they would have found even more security flaws.
Bishop is a recognized expert in computer security and says “…the security seems like it was added on.”
The hearing on Monday will be open to the pubic. I hope the people of California can muster a vocal contingent…I think the security of my vote is as basic as brakes on my car…neither of which should be add-ons.
Labels: California, Ewaste, USA, eballot, electronic voting
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Security of Electronic Voting Machines Optional!
Sunday, July 15, 2007
This story falls under the heading of news you can use.
Don’t ever forget: it doesn’t matter for whom you vote, what really matters is who counts your vote!
Actions for bringing you internet voting are going on across the globe. Canada, the USA, France. The UE has launced the Cyber Vote Project trials have already been used in Sweden, France and Germany.
Why leave the club when the party is just getting hot? Text in your vote while in a drunken stupper via your cell phone. How about casting your vote for the next American Idol and then voting for your next Prime Minister or President. Careful now don’t get the two mixed up.
In spite of the US Department of Security warnings in 2004 listing its top 5 reasons to not use internet voting Evoting is rolled forward:
Our conclusions are summarized as follows:
DRE (direct recording electronic) voting systems have been widely criticized elsewhere for various deficiencies and security vulnerabilities: that their software is totally closed and proprietary; that the software undergoes insufficient scrutiny during qualification and certification; that they are especially vulnerable to various forms of insider (programmer) attacks; and that DREs have no voter-verified audit trails (paper or otherwise) that could largely circumvent these problems and improve voter confidence. All of these criticisms, which we endorse, apply directly to SERVE as well.
But in addition, because SERVE is an Internet- and PC-based system, it has numerous other fundamental security problems that leave it vulnerable to a variety of well-known cyber attacks (insider attacks, denial of service attacks, spoofing, automated vote buying, viral attacks on voter PCs, etc.), any one of which could be catastrophic.
Such attacks could occur on a large scale, and could be launched by anyone from a disaffected lone individual to a well-financed enemy agency outside the reach of U.S. law. These attacks could result in large-scale, selective voter disenfranchisement, and/or privacy violation, and/or vote buying and selling, and/or vote switching even to the extent of reversing the outcome of many elections at once, including the presidential election. With care in the design, some of the attacks could succeed and yet go completely undetected. Even if detected and neutralized, such attacks could have a devastating effect on public confidence in elections.
It is impossible to estimate the probability of a successful cyber-attack (or multiple successful attacks) on any one election. But we show that the attacks we are most concerned about are quite easy to perpetrate. In some cases there are kits readily available on the Internet that could be modified or used directly for attacking an election. And we must consider the obvious fact that a U.S. general election offers one of the most tempting targets for cyber-attack in the history of the Internet, whether the attacker’s motive is overtly political or simply self-aggrandizement.
New Report:
The US Department of Defense has continued analyzing Online Voting and concluded in a new report that reads in part May 2007:
“There really is no good way to build such a voting system without a radical change in overall architecture of the Internet and the PC, or some unforeseen security breakthrough.” Online voting security is “an essentially impossible task.”
…”Most of the security problems with Internet voting are generic to any PC and Internet application, and fundamentally have no effective solutions. This is why the majority of all email transmitted ove the Internet is spam, and an estimated 50% of all Internet-connected PCs in the world are infected with malicious software, despite more than a decad of effor and immense investment by the world’s high technology companies in trying to fix these problems.” …”The real problem is that no fundamental solution is possible using the current Internet protocols and the current PC hardware and software platforms.”
Demand that your vote be counted as cast. Demand paper ballots that can be verified. Your most fundamental of rights are in peril regardless in what nation you live.
THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF, don’t ever forget, it isn’t them against us. They are us, we have sent them into our goverments to represent us, now demand that they proctect our right to cast an unempeachable ballot. We need to stop letting the tail wag the dog.
Labels: Ewaste, Toxic Ewaste, bycatch, eballot, electronic voting
© 2009, Pacific Spirit Marine Institute.
Eballot For World: More Ewaste and Bycatch, Texted Your Vote In!
