{"id":436,"date":"2003-08-14T13:43:37","date_gmt":"2003-08-14T17:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/14\/fraud-in-modern-voting-cas-recall\/"},"modified":"2003-08-14T13:43:37","modified_gmt":"2003-08-14T17:43:37","slug":"fraud-in-modern-voting-cas-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/08\/14\/fraud-in-modern-voting-cas-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraud in Modern Voting: CA’s Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aaron Brown on the scary prospect of using Diebold <\/STRONG>electronic voting machines in the upcoming recall election in Berkeley:<\/P>
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Berkeley uses the Diebold Accuvote DRE machine. Somehow the source code to these machines leaked onto the Internet… <\/FONT>several well-respected security researchers<\/FONT><\/A> took a look at it, and <\/FONT>found it riddled with flaws<\/FONT><\/A>. Without any access to the code, voters <\/STRONG>could vote multiple times, view partial election results, or even close <\/EM>the polling station. Poll workers <\/STRONG>could do far more damage. And the machine doesn’t authenticate the remote server when reporting results, meaning that an ISP<\/STRONG> on the path between the voting machine and the backend vote tabulator could manipulate ballots, results, etc.  <\/FONT><\/P>
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Pretty damn scary.
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After Rubin’s paper came out, Diebold wrote a hasty hand-waving rebuttal<\/A>, and then spent some time publicly ridiculing <\/STRONG>the academics who wrote the paper, hoping to mollify their clients<\/STRONG>.  As a result, they produced some incredible propaganda<\/A> which includes, among other gems (emphasis mine):<\/P>
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It was most unusual to find the industry leader [Diebold] being discredited by a couple of Johns Hopkins University graduate students… [in] a report that directly contradicts information provided by Robyn M. Downs, elections administrator of Prince George’s County, Md., for a story on her implementation of electronic voting….  We believe Ms. Downs. Like most Black people in high-profile jobs, she is not in a position to make mistakes and survive<\/STRONG>.<\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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I guess that settles it then.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aaron Brown on the scary prospect of using Diebold electronic voting machines in the upcoming recall election in Berkeley: Berkeley uses the Diebold Accuvote DRE machine. Somehow the source code to these machines leaked onto the Internet… several well-respected security researchers took a look at it, and found it riddled with flaws. Without any access […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}