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Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

2008-08-28 06:38:35 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...votes to be dropped It's unclear if this error is random or systemic. If it's random -- a small percentage of all votes are dropped -- then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it's systemic -- a small percentage of votes for a particular candidate are dropped -- then it is much more problematic Ohio is...
 
Tags: election, diebold election systems, diebold, machines, election technology, ohio, ohio secretary, election officials, votes
 
 
 
 
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Buy Diggs and Votes on StumbleUpon

2008-01-04 00:32:12 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...votes on stumbleupon for traffic generation. Selling at $1 per vote/digg the goal is to monetize that traffic through various marketing campaigns or traffic arbitraging. Pretty interesting business model, and at worst its against the ToS of the various companies - its probably not illegal in any way. Blackhat SEM at its finest. Its really not...
 
Tags: traffic, traffic generation, traffic arbitrage, stumbleupon, profit blog, profit, stay, pretty, margins stay
 
 
 
 
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Ohio official sues e-voting vendor for lost votes

2008-08-08 13:00:00 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner filed a lawsuit against e-voting vendor Premier Election Solutions for dropped votes in the state's March primary election. Premier Election Solutions was formerly called Diebold Election Systems
 
Tags: diebold election systems, premier election solutions, march primary election, jennifer brunner filed, ohio secretary, votes, lawsuit
 
 
 
 
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E-voting vendor: Programming errors caused dropped votes

2008-08-22 00:00:00 by Grant Gross in Network World on Security
 
An major electronic voting system vendor has changed its story in an attempt to explain how its machines dropped hundreds of votes in Ohio's March primary elections, saying it was a programming error, not the fault of antivirus software
 
Tags: march primary elections, system vendor, antivirus software, major electronic, votes, story, ohio, attempt, machines
 
 
 
 
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More trustworthy election systems via SDL?

2008-02-04 23:34:00 by sdl in The Security Development Lifecycle
 
...votes, or 0.0045% of the popular vote The populace demands confidence that, even in close elections, the election result accurately reflects the voters intent. In theory, such precision can be improved by using computers and technology However, it seems that every recent election season brings stories in the media about security concerns...
 
Tags: machine security concerns, security concerns, election systems, election, security, security researchers, election systems margin, margin, election management system
 
 
 
 
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How effective is the wisdom of crowds as a security mechanism?

2007-12-21 15:26:10 by Tyler Moore in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...votes we observed. Both the distributions of votes and submissions follow a power law This leaves PhishTank more vulnerable to manipulation than would be the case if every member of the crowd participated to the same extent. Why? If a few of the most active users stopped voting, a backlog of unverified phishing sites might collect. It also...
 
Tags: phishtank, phishtank compare, leaves phishtank, users, phishtanks users, vote maliciously, vote, active users, urls
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 06:44:05 by HASH0x8bc5b54 in StillSecure, After All These Years
...votes will have to count in a close race). But is she electable in a general election. She is a lightening rod for Republican wrath it seems. Maybe it is part of that vast right wing conspiracy that she always spoke about. What is interesting on the Democratic side, is I really don't just see a lot of difference in their positions. In fact...
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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Thoughts on Super Tuesday

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2008-02-06 00:59:36 by ashimmy in StillSecure, After All These Years
...votes will have to count in a close race). But is she electable in a general election. She is a lightening rod for Republican wrath it seems. Maybe it is part of that vast right wing conspiracy that she always spoke about. What is interesting on the Democratic side, is I really don't just see a lot of difference in their positions. In fact...
 
Tags: vote republican, vote, republican, republican presidential majority, traditional republican argument, traditional republican, super tuesday, vote primarily, party
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Sequoia & e-voting... the best government money can buy

2008-03-25 12:34:03 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
Robert X. Cringely beholds the mess in Jersey and asks if our votes count when corporate and public interests collide
 
Tags: cringely beholds, votes count, jersey, public, robert, mess, collide