Re: vulnerability testing proposed for California

[Lou Puls <lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is indeed a significant step against enforcing idiotic laws, but only a small step toward eliminating the idiotic laws.  At best, it is a slow-down, blue-flu effort to make enforcement so impractical or so costly that the electorate may someday hopefully pull the plug on DRE's.

Such a strategy will provide years of employment for thousands of Red Team experts, just as many thousands of computer experts are gainfully employed to constantly nursemaid poorly designed, massively insecure Microsoft operating system software.

The real problem is proprietary, corporate voting systems that are unaccountable, untrustworthy, insecure, and vulnerable to fraudulent abuse that can be hidden away forever.  

Paper ballots of record that are fully accountable and recountable are a standard that no alternate system has yet come near meeting.

--Lou

-----Original Message-----
>From: Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: May 8, 2007 1:48 PM
>To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: vulnerability testing proposed for California
>
>Good news from California!  This is a significant step and I hope they
>stick to their plain.  If we don't test the machines as soon as
>possible, we'll just have less time to deal with the inevitable issues
>that come up....
>
>Neal McBurnett                 http://mcburnett.org/neal/
>
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>California: E-voting Machines Face Tough New Standards
>
> http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2360&Itemid=113
>