{"id":4880,"date":"2007-07-27T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T22:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2009-03-22T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T18:42:53","slug":"ca-sos-bowen-analysts-able-to-bypass-both-physical-and-software-security-for-every-system-they-reviewedin-landmark-independent-top-to-bottom-review-of-ca-voting-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"CA SoS Bowen: &#8216;Analysts Able to Bypass Both Physical and Software Security for Every System They Reviewed&#8217; in Landmark Independent &#8216;Top-to-Bottom Review&#8217; of CA Voting Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Blogged by Brad from Houston&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/siren.gif\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\">Going <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4878\">on air in 4 minutes<\/a>&#8230;But still on line on media conference call w\/ CA SoS Debra Bowen concerning her landmark independent &#8220;Top-to-Bottom Review&#8221; of all voting systems in the state.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more on the air tonight (see link above), but she has just said &#8220;The independent teams of analysts were able to bypass both physical and software security measures in every system tested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reports are not yet posted, but should be any moment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/elections_vsr.htm\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned, more throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4878\">tonight&#8217;s Peter B. Collins Show<\/a> which I&#8217;m currently Guest Hosting&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE BY JOHN GIDEON:<\/em> None of the voting systems tested were found to meet federal mandates for disabled voter accessibility. This may present a problem for the state as they will not be able to allow those systems to be used for accessibility unless the vendors can find solutions for their shortcomings.<\/p>\n<p><em>EVEN LATER UPDATE (BY BRAD):<\/em> John and I discuss (and rant about) all of the above, along with more details on the reports findings in this audio clip from today&#8217;s Peter B. Collins show [<em>appx. 10 mins<\/em>]&#8230;<br \/>\n[audio:http:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/PeterBCollins_BradGuestHost_072707_Hour3_BowenReviewGideon.mp3]\n<p><em>UPDATE 7\/28\/07:<\/em> We&#8217;ll have much more on this in the days ahead, and we strongly recommend folks read comments below for more details, thoughts from citizens. But in the meantime, here&#8217;s <i>NY Times&#8217;<\/i> coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/28\/us\/28vote.html\">&#8220;Scientists&#8217; Tests Hack Into Electronic Voting Machines in California and Elsewhere&#8221;<\/a> and <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> coverage: <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/c\/a\/2007\/07\/28\/MNGP6R8TJO1.DTL\">&#8220;STATE VOTE MACHINES LOSE TEST TO HACKERS.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogged by Brad from Houston&#8230; Going on air in 4 minutes&#8230;But still on line on media conference call w\/ CA SoS Debra Bowen concerning her landmark independent &#8220;Top-to-Bottom Review&#8221; of all voting systems in the state. I&#8217;ll have more on the air tonight (see link above), but she has just said &#8220;The independent teams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,17,3,38,39,73],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-debra-bowen","category-dieboldpremier","category-hart-intercivic","category-sequoia-voting-systems","category-voting-system-certification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}