As U.S. election approaches...what are your least/favorite examples of hacks of (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems? You know, technical ones, not propaganda and the idea of democractic voting itself. BlackBoxVoting.org has an interesting collection of PDFs[1] of technical material, including manuals, schematics, and troubleshooting, for various voting system manufacturers, plus reports detailing problems. (There are also the more straightforward non-technical issues, like allowing people to actually watch the vote-counting.) There's also the instance[2] of hackers putting Pac-Man on the Sequoia AVC-Edge DRE voting machine without breaking any of the tamper-evident seals. Finally...in honor of all elections, to use a corporate term: blue-sky thinking. If you were going after (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems, what would you do? Douglas [1] http://blackboxvoting.org/reports/voting-system-technical-information/ [2] https://jhalderm.com/pacman/
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
Finally...in honor of all elections, to use a corporate term: blue-sky thinking. If you were going after (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems, what would you do?
Besides smash them for being a completely unnecessary obfuscation? ... program them to discard votes for Rep or Dem candidates until three or more parties and independants arise.
On 04/08/2015 07:39 PM, grarpamp wrote:
If you were going after (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems, what would you do?
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Thanks all, I was thinking this would be more a Libtech question than a cpunks one ;-) I confess, editor asked me to do the topic, but I'm taking it on the basis that 1) more skepticism about voting the better, since voting sucks; 2) democracy sucks, and basically my strategy is becoming to write an article such that I can add to the tweets promoting it a link to a blog post or some such with more radical material like this one against democracy altogether: https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/the-problems-with-democracy-2/ But still! If you have something creative or useful to say about e-voting hacks, scandals, etc., please do chime in before this thread meets the dustbin of history. There's the case of the Karl Rove IT guy, present for many e-voting scandals, who died in the suspicious plane crash right before testifying: http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/22/republican_it_specialist_dies_in_plan... On 04/08/2015 05:39 PM, grarpamp wrote:
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Douglas Lucas <dal@riseup.net> wrote:
Finally...in honor of all elections, to use a corporate term: blue-sky thinking. If you were going after (esp. U.S.) computerized voting systems, what would you do?
Besides smash them for being a completely unnecessary obfuscation? ... program them to discard votes for Rep or Dem candidates until three or more parties and independants arise.
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