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Tue Aug-16-05 03:09 PM
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Johns Hopkins gets $7.5 mil to develop verifiable voting |
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BALTIMORE - Armed with a $7.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, Johns Hopkins University is leading a new effort to improve the reliability of electronic voting machines. Click Here
The project's goal is to design the most foolproof, transparent voting system possible, officials said Monday.http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050816/ap_on_re_us/electronic_voting;_ylt=AqCOTWxq.Qu9JUzdvUaCyous0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:12 PM
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I'll give it the benefit of the doubt, until we learn more...
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:15 PM
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I think Avi Rubin is trustworthy.
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:14 PM
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2. FABULOUS - If only it works |
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and is not just another wasting of time...
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:19 PM
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4. Excellent. As is the name of the study group. nt. |
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:28 PM
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5. How interesting that they want to reinvent the wheel rather |
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than support introduction of the TruVote system developed by the late Athan Gibbs, CPA.
Could Mr Gibbs having been a Black man have anything to do with that, I wonder?
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:29 PM
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6. Paper ballots NOW!!! Hand counts NOW!!! Impeachment NOW!!! nt |
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:30 PM
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7. Alright, Avi! But the machines for 2006 will have already been purchased! |
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Tue Aug 16, 1:03 PM ET
The project's goal is to design the most foolproof, transparent voting system possible, officials said Monday.
"I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted," said Avi Rubin, a computer science professor. He will head a new Hopkins center called ACCURATE, short for A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections.
Rubin told The (Baltimore) Sun he hopes the center will provide information in time for the 2008 presidential contest, but that its research will take longer.
Rubin has been an outspoken critic of computerized voting. In 2003, he co-authored a report that found voting machines from Diebold Elections Systems were vulnerable to hackers, multiple votes and vote-switching.
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Tue Aug-16-05 03:31 PM
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8. it'll work if we can SEE inside the machines |
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:26 PM
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10. All you need are the receipts that Diebold's ATMs routinely |
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print. Put 'em in a ballot box for confirmation of the electronic count. Why do we need 7.5 million spent?
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:27 PM
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11. For better accuracy and transparency, I think. |
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A way that ballots/receipts can't be carted off, can't be altered, can't be "lost," etc...
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Tue Aug-16-05 04:32 PM
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Tue Aug-16-05 05:49 PM
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I just love how great you are with research!! :hi:
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Tue Aug-16-05 05:51 PM
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14. Why not just follow the Canadian system |
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of voting on paper ballots in federal elections, without spending millions?
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Tue Aug-16-05 05:54 PM
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15. I think we've had "transparency" problems with that before. |
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Paper degrades, or gets "lost."
There's also the matter of allowing everyone to vote (no phony felon lists) which may involve some id system, I don't know (and disallowing double voting, which did take place in 2000 on overseas military ballots, iirc).
I'm not an expert on what JH intends to develop.
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Tue Aug-16-05 06:15 PM
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16. There are provisional ballots and Election Day registration |
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to deal with the problem of people being purged from the registration lists.
In Minnesota, we have Election Day Registration.
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Tue Aug-16-05 06:18 PM
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17. Paper ballot, people counting the votes = foolproof |
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And I will only charge 7 million
another 7.5 million wasted
:grr: :grr:
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