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Obfuscated Vote Counting Contest
Daniel Horn writes "In a flash of inspiration coming from the Obfuscated C code contest and the current E-voting scandals, I wondered if there shouldn't be a similar code obfuscation contest based on obfuscating voting results, that is, C code that appears correct but does the wrong thing when counting votes. Submit your obfuscated vote-counting code now, and the two winners will be selected on November 2 and will receive a free Vega Strike CD. Obviously incorrect code, however, is not welcome."
This seems to be similar to Dr. Avi Rubin's challenge to the community, which basically states that a team of security specialists and programmers should be given access to the development environment of one of the major DRE machines, by the vendor. The team should then attempt to rig the machine in favor of one candidate, and then submit the machine for approval by the elections board's testing agency. The testing agency doesn't know it's being tested, and doesn't know the machine is rigged. Could they catch the rigged machine as they currently claim? It's the same basic principle as having undercover agents attempt to sneak weapons through airport security.
The paper can be found at:
http://avirubin.com/vote/ita.challenge.pdf
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Why create code that distorts the voting results, Diebold has already done it.
My favorite story was a county in Pennsylvania (if I remember correctly, it's in this months Readers Digest) where the electronic voting machine correctly counted all 144,000 votes. Except there were only 19,000 registered voters in the entire county.
We're screwed in this election. It is going to make the 2000 Florida crap look like a cakewalk.
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It has nothing to do with default case. It has to do with the lack of breaks.
Read it again. A vote for kerry means both kerry and bush get a vote. A vote for nader means nader kerry and bush get a vote.
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