Officials in Mississippi are the first to speak out and tell their voters that even though the voters are forced to use the same Diebold Direct Recording Electronic voting machines that recently failed security testing in California and Florida there are no problems in Mississippi. It probably has to do with an upcoming primary election next Tuesday. What a tangled web we weave…..Matt Blaze, the leader of the California Source Code Team that looked at Sequoia code had this to say about the results from inspection of all three vendors code, “ Unfortunately, while finding many of the vulnerabilities may have been straightforward enough, fixing them won't be. The root problems are architectural. All three reviewed products are, in effect, large-scale distributed systems that have many of their security-critical functions performed by equipment sent out into the field. In particular, the integrity of the vote tallies depends not only on the central computers at the county elections offices, but also on the voting machines (and software) at the polling places, removable media that pass through multiple hands, and complex human processes whose security implications may not be clear to the people who perform them. In other words, the designs of these systems expose generously wide "attack surfaces" to anyone who seeks to compromise them. And the defenses are dangerously fragile almost any bug, anywhere, has potential security implications.”

 

NAtional: Why VVPAT 'Paper Trials' are Not Enough

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4902

 

NAtional: Viewpoint: The Devil Is In the Details

http://www.electionreformproject.org/Resources/d28352ba-4abd-4f19-a1fd-40709e46b353/r1/Detail.aspx

 

NAtional: Viewpoint: Slow Down, You're Moving Too Fast

http://www.electionreformproject.org/Resources/347ec5c3-9951-4fb4-9730-99baa8aa0595/r1/Detail.aspx

 

NAtional: Report: post-election audits needed to ensure election integrity

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070801-report-post-election-audits-needed-to-ensure-election-integrity.html

 

NAtional: Democrats Plan to Assess Voting State by State

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/02/us/politics/02dems.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

NAtional: Paper-trail perspective

http://thehill.com/john-fortier/paper-trail-perspective-2007-08-01.html

 

NAtional: NYTimes: The 'Revolving Door' of Partisan Election Officials and the Voting Machine Industry

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4904

 

CA: California voting systems code review now released

Almost as eagerly anticipated as the new Harry Potter book.

http://www.crypto.com/blog/ca_voting_report/

 

CA: Shame on Them! CA. Election Officials Attack Their Chief

http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jody_hol_070802_shame_on_them_21_ca__e.htm

 

CA: Thank you, California Secretary of State Bowen!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_al_kolwi_070801_thank_you_2c_californi.htm

 

CA: Researchers recommend tougher post-election audits

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/08/01_evoteaudit.shtml

 

CA: Computer voting machines on trial

County officials are confident of security, but tests show otherwise

http://www.vvdailypress.com/news/voting_2113___article.html/machines_state.html

 

CA: Why all California's electronic voting systems should be decertified

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_paul_leh_070801_why_all_california_s.htm

 

CA: Columnist - Daniel Weintraub: Bowen weighs future of 'black box' voting in state

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/303990.html

 

CA: Secretary Bowen's review of voting systems

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_jody_hol_070802_secretary_bowen_s_re.htm

 

CA: Why Many Californians Don’t Trust the Vendors of Electronic Voting Systems and Election Officials Who Defend Them

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2007/08/why_many_califo.html

 

CA: Editorial - Voting fraud six months removed?

http://www.vcreporter.com/article.php?id=5005&IssueNum=135

 

CA: Butte County - County clerk challenges voting machine test

http://www.orovillemr.com/news/ci_6521680

 

CA: Riverside County - E-voting questioned

http://www.towncrier.com/pages/stories/story220070802.html#continued

 

CT: Long-Due Voting Change

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=2939b225-2be9-4511-ad45-0ed20a17fb8c

 

FL: Diebold E-Voting Flaws Could Compromise Elections

Florida isn't crazy about optical scan voting devices slated to be used in the state's presidential primary elections next year.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,135343-c,currentevents/article.html

 

FL: Test Finds Florida Faces E-Voting Problems

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008078421

 

FL: Opinion - Yet another voting headache

At least this time, the flaws were found before the election

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20070802/OPINION/708020372/1030

 

FL: The Plot Thickens for Electronic Voting

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0020007DLNO2

 

FL: More voting machine problems: Florida, again

http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2007/08/02/voting_machines_florida/

 

FL: Volusia County - Voting machines to stay put

Volusia responds to reported security worries about taking equipment home.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-pollworker0207aug02,0,6004373.story

 

GA: Voter group criticizes paper ballot trial

http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_214000148.html

 

GA: VoterGA Gives One Year Update on E-Voting Lawsuit

http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0204.html

 

GA: Handel rehashes voter ID ploy

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/08/01/voted_0802.html

 

MS: Be wary of those who offer voter ID as a fix-all for elections

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070802/COL0411/708020315

 

MS: State agency insists Miss. voting machines OK

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=248042&pub=1&div=News

 

NJ: Activists cast vote for scanners to replace electronic balloting

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1186028937304850.xml&coll=1

 

NJ: Judge won't order voting machines testing

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/08/judge_wont_order_voting_machin.html

 

NJ: Sussex County - Voter backup system questioned

http://www.njherald.com/304585255828018.php

 

NY: Our Worst Nightmare Is Our Reality

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_andi_nov_070801_our_worst_nightmare_.htm

 

OH: Ohio 2004 Presidential Election Ballots Illegally Destroyed, Missing in At Least 56 of 88 Counties...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4901

 

OH: The criminal cover-up of Ohio's stolen 2004 election sinks to the fraudulent, the absurd, the pathetic

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2007/2730

 

TN: Election Commission Hopes To Make Voting Quicker

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=6875572

 

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