{"id":8097,"date":"2010-09-28T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T00:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2010-10-05T23:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T06:11:58","slug":"experts-warn-against-dcs-planned-insane-internet-voting-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8097","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn Against D.C.’s Planned, Insane Internet Voting Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Along with the madness of Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)<\/a> and Vote-by-Mail<\/a>, Internet Voting is the other scheme\/virus that makes my head explode — as if the existing e-voting system we already use in the U.S. isn’t unverifiable, unoverseeable and susceptible enough to malfeasance and malfunction as is.<\/p>\n

So with the little patience I can muster to even mention this latest particular nightmare at all today, I’ll defer to Washington Post’s<\/i> coverage yesterday<\/a> — sure to be ignored until it’s too late (“Who could have foreseen it?!<\/em>“) — of the experts’ latest warnings against<\/i> D.C.’s planned live democracy experiment<\/i> of using an untested and unverifiable Internet Voting scheme on real voters, in a real election, beginning in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n

The WaPo<\/i> column includes this explanation of two letters sent to D.C. officials this week, urging them to take a different path…<\/p>\n

The first missive<\/a> [PDF] questions whether the digital vote by mail system is “voter-verifiable,” as required under the city’s new election laws. The voter has no way of confirming that the ballot he or she sent is the same one that is counted by elections officials, the letter argues.<\/p>\n

The second letter<\/a> [PDF] raises sharp concerns over the vulnerability to infiltration by hackers, calling the new system a “poorly conceived experiment” that “imperils the overall accuracy of every election on the ballot.”<\/p>\n

The letter continues: “Return of marked ballots over the Internet is something we simply don’t know how to do safely. Exercises such as this are counterproductive, because they will provide a false sense of security to the [D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics], while the real problems lie undetected.”<\/p><\/div>\n

Four advil and three shots of vodka please.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 10\/4\/10:<\/strong><\/em> Aaaaand…whaddaya know, D.C. Internet Vote scheme — the one experts above were warning about — gets hacked. Who could have forseen it?! Details here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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