Comments on: Diebold Election Systems http://elektronkind.org/2003/10/diebold-election-systems Navigator of the synapse Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:47:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: modisch http://elektronkind.org/2003/10/diebold-election-systems/comment-page-1#comment-19 modisch Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://elektronkind.org/wordpress/?p=37#comment-19 Yah, I've got no faith in the thing. Especially the lack of any backup that would offer some indisputable evidence of tampering. No paper trail, no hanging chad, no physical evidence. A few mouse clicks or a couple token code commands and poof, voting history rewritten. It's absurd. But one more tool for the powers that be to selectively listen to what they want to hear. "What, huh? There we problems with the machines in black districts? Lotsa null votes? oh well... How are the results coming back from Whitesville? Oh, good, 100% accuracy. Told you these things worked great." bah. Yah, I’ve got no faith in the thing. Especially the lack of any backup that would offer some indisputable evidence of tampering. No paper trail, no hanging chad, no physical evidence. A few mouse clicks or a couple token code commands and poof, voting history rewritten.

It’s absurd.

But one more tool for the powers that be to selectively listen to what they want to hear. “What, huh? There we problems with the machines in black districts? Lotsa null votes? oh well… How are the results coming back from Whitesville? Oh, good, 100% accuracy. Told you these things worked great.”

bah.

]]> By: xian http://elektronkind.org/2003/10/diebold-election-systems/comment-page-1#comment-20 xian Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://elektronkind.org/wordpress/?p=37#comment-20 How about a simple system that allows you to check who you voted for on the internet when you supply a username and password. That way you can be assured your vote was not manipulated. How about a simple system that allows you to check who you voted for on the internet when you supply a username and password. That way you can be assured your vote was not manipulated.

]]> By: Elektronkind http://elektronkind.org/2003/10/diebold-election-systems/comment-page-1#comment-21 Elektronkind Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://elektronkind.org/wordpress/?p=37#comment-21 A system that would allow one to check their vote afterwards, while sounds great, would abridge the basis of the democratic voting system itself - ie, the right to remain anonymous when placing your vote. Such a system's technology would inherently, either directly or indirectly, have to contain the ability to tie a vote to a voter... in order for the voter to verify his/her own vote. /ek A system that would allow one to check their vote afterwards, while sounds great, would abridge the basis of the democratic voting system itself – ie, the right to remain anonymous when placing your vote.

Such a system’s technology would inherently, either directly or indirectly, have to contain the ability to tie a vote to a voter… in order for the voter to verify his/her own vote.

/ek

]]> By: Dorn Hetzel http://elektronkind.org/2003/10/diebold-election-systems/comment-page-1#comment-22 Dorn Hetzel Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://elektronkind.org/wordpress/?p=37#comment-22 A voting system could easily provide a voting audit method for the voter without compromising anonymity. The voting machine in the booth does not know the identity of the voter standing in front of it, so it can print out a voting receipt showing their votes and a unique random identifier. The vote record could be accessed on a central web site by the unique key, so each person could, if they felt like it, check their own vote, but nobody could tell the identify of any of the visible votes unless they had the receipt in their possession. Even losing your receipt wouldn't be a huge risk, since it contains no identifying information except the one unique key. A voting system could easily provide a voting audit method for the voter without compromising anonymity. The voting machine in the booth does not know the identity of the voter standing in front of it, so it can print out a voting receipt showing their votes and a unique random identifier. The vote record could be accessed on a central web site by the unique key, so each person could, if they felt like it, check their own vote, but nobody could tell the identify of any of the visible votes unless they had the receipt in their possession. Even losing your receipt wouldn’t be a huge risk, since it contains no identifying information except the one unique key.

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