Walker never listens LOL.

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/Campaigns/PaperBallots/

I agree with most of what they said. Some points are dubious, however.

If knowing the algorithm breaks the security, it is not secure. Read any literature on security. Look up the concept of Security Through Obscurity. It does not and never will work.

http://www.velvetrevolution.us – Cyber Security expert Stephen Spoonamore discusses electronic voting vulnerabilities.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyByZx5GEaw

H.R. 811 mandates creating a paper ballot for every vote cast, allowing for meaningful recounts and audits of questionable election results. Georgia’s current voting system was deliberately designed to create no physical evidence, no paper ballots to document a voter’s intent. The big lie promulgated by opponents of fair elections is that H.R. 811 requires continued use of touch-screen voting machines, where the bill actually allows paper ballots to be used with optical scan systems. No official from Georgia’s Secretary of State office has ever acknowledged this fact since the bill’s introduction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLFetoTO3zk

Actually, my former employer is a decently large “small” business in the Macon area – and I’m quite sure that if I gave the company names or the CEO/COO’s names (father/son team there), you, Erick, and quite possibly quite a few people statewide would recognize their names – they have hosted Saxby twice that I know of, once while I worked there and once after I left.

Our testing then was designed with rigor – we tested EVERYTHING, with the express goal of finding ANY bug – actual or potential.

Furthermore, the machines do not have passwords – their algorithm IS their security.

Why do you not see that the basic tenet of security vs transparency applies here as well?

You can be EITHER completely secure OR completely transparent, but you can never be BOTH at once.

That depends on what your definition of “is” is. I would generally tend to believe the accuracy of the articles as of the date the articles were written, although you are correct in that these Corporations are definitely playing the corporate shell game. Of course one of the main reasons, many believe, is that “Diebold” has become a dirty word.

A: I guess nobody sells a non-existent system. If they did it would no longer be non-existent.

Kathy Rogers, director of the secretary of state’s elections division, resigned Nov. 30 and has accepted a job with Diebold Election Systems, manufacturer of Georgia’s voting machines, according to several state officials. Rogers apparently will serve as a liaison between elections officials throughout the United States and Diebold.
http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6428

Yup, his lips are moving.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_machines.png

Paper printouts (with random checks against the electronic counterpart) are an an absolute no-brainer. To argue against this you would have to be technologically illiterate… or just happy with recent Georgia election results and assuming that any corruption is working in your favor. I think it’s very its very telling that every politician anywhere near the SoS race promises to impose a paper trail, and then once elected promptly drops the campaign promise.

Honestly, do we need hanging chads in Georgia?

Thank Goodness that the Supreme Court upheld our system of voting today or who knows what would happen…

Your previous employer is likely out of business by now if that was their testing method. You do not test software by having 4 people doing random things to it in a coffee shop with the COO. You test software with test plans that cover all the code and test both expected and unexpected results.

It further demonstrates that you do not know the slightest idea about what you are spouting off about as you should know that a password is not an algorithm, it is data.

Cyber security is an extremely complicated discipline that is well above my and clearly well above your skillset. Faking online is difficult because there are a large number of people who are tech savvy enough to catch you.

Karen Handel has only one vote on the State Election Board.

Where do you propose Georgia finds the $50-60 million to replace the system with a yet to be developed federally certified paper verifiable system.

Again who sells this non-existent system?