[CAVO] Fwd: Election Story

[Lawrence Rosen]

Brent Turner wrote:

> As I explained to Ron Rivest - and he agreed--  an audit does not cure an insecure election.  The firs count comes from the software and bad actors can  use the passage of time toward artificial reconciliation.. i.e manicuring the stored ballots into conformity with the tainted software count 

 

I mentioned to Brent yesterday that there are digital protocols (ref: Bitcoin) that can verify transactions without using a trusted agent to do so. Such protocols are open source.

 

This verifiability doesn't depend on whether the software is proprietary or open source, as long as the voting transactions are secure and verifiable. Nobody cares what I spend my Bitcoins on as long as nobody else can steal them from me and spend them instead, and as long as I can prove it.

 

/Larry

 

 

From: CAVO [mailto:cavo-bounces at opensource.org] On Behalf Of Brent Turner
Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2017 1:15 PM
To: CAVO <CAVO at opensource.org>
Subject: [CAVO] Fwd: Election Story

 

"If we have those, even with proprietary software, we can protect our election from being hacked," Barbara Simons maintained. "You can't hack paper." 

To be clear-- this is bullshit. 

 

As I explained to Ron Rivest - and he agreed--  an audit does not cure an insecure election.  The firs count comes from the software and bad actors can  use the passage of time toward artificial reconciliation.. i.e manicuring the stored ballots into conformity with the tainted software count 

 

Be mindful Simons works for Dill 

 

Here is the GAO giving direction to Dill 

 

http://accurate-voting.org/accurate/docs/proposal-feb2005.pdf
See 3.3  Technology Transfer

also see 5. Management Plan 
"one group that will be represented on the Advisory Board is the Open Voting Consortium"
didn't happen

 

Dr. Mercuri's complaint 

 

http://www.notablesoftware.com/ACCURATE/MyIntellectualProperty.eml

 

Dill's control-  associated groups 

 

http://cavo-us.org/matrix.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

 

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