SF ACM Wed. -- Prof. David L. Dill on "The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems"

Tue Feb 17 15:09:30 PST 2004

Some of you may already have seen the blurb, and I'm rather reluctant to
spam the list (for various reasons), but here's an excerpt for those who
may not have seen/noted it.

I believe it's relevant to sysadmins because reliability of the computer
systems in question lies at (or very close to) the heart of the matter,
and as sysadmins, we tend to be rather more familiar with such issues
than most.  :-{

Excerpt follows:

Date:         Tue, 17 Feb 2004 13:06:00 -0500
Reply-To: Fran Sinhart <sinhart at HQ.ACM.ORG>
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From: Fran Sinhart <sinhart at HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject:      ACM talk: "Battle for Accountable Voting Systems" (Wed 2/18/2004)
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Please forward this notice to a friend
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of ACM
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presents
The Battle for Accountable Voting Systems
Prof. David L. Dill
Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Founder of
VerifiedVoting.org

Date Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004
Time: 6:30pm - refreshments, 7:00pm - talk
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions below), Pruneridge and Wolfe,
Cupertino, Bldg. 48, Oak Room.
Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only
$10/year.

Touch-screen voting machines store records of cast votes in internal memory,
where the voter cannot check them. Because of our system of secret ballots,
once the voter leaves the polls there is no way anyone can determine whether
the vote captured was what the voter intended. Why should voters trust these
machines?

....

Peace,
david
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