VeriSign and Secure Internet Voting

Bucky Katt writes "VeriSign announced Monday that it will provide key components of a system designed to let Americans abroad cast absentee votes over the Internet."

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Gore had most votes on all levels...

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Too many articles to mention on this. "Stupid White Men" - Michael Moore explains how Bush still managed to get himself placed in office... thanks to a little help of his friends; Brother Jeb,Campaign Manager on the Florida ballot tallying board, 1st Cousin at Fox News to break the story about Bush's "win", and Neo Cons on the Bench of Supreme Court, to stop a recount that had been steadily taking the "win" away from Bush.

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Reading the article would do you no good, because, you see, I'm an idiot. I RTFA too, but somehow everytime my eyes saw VeriSign, the voices in my head were saying Diebold. Do dee dum dee doot dee do.

Sorry about that - I'm just still so freaked about the Diebold BS and I want to see more press about it, so I'm projecting Diebold into stories that have nothing to do with them, apparently.

But still, I think we need to take a big step back from the whole electronic voting thing until we can have an unbiased audit of the touch screen machines' security without all the coverups. Diebold is keeping their software versions secret and suing people to keep them from publishing internal memos that show they're ignoring the security issues instead of fixing the problems and showing us their fixed.

All they have to do is have the machines spit out a barcoded ballot that can be machine counted and compared with the data collected by the touch screen machines, and take the master computer off the Internet. They brag about the touch screen machines not being on the 'net, but the main one is. What's the problem with reading the results off the screen and then releasing the data to the press? You can't hack something you can't access.

There's some pretty scary stuff about the whole thing at blackboxvoting.com. And while some may consider this offtopic, I'd like to propose the analogy that if you're having problems with getting hacked through your dial up connection, you might want to hold off on adding a broadband connection until you've secured the first method.