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The Diebold AccuVote TS Should be Decertified |
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And what this tells us about the certification process, Dr. Doug Jones, University of Iowa, Computer Science Department
Dr. Jones presented this paper at the USENEX Security Symposium in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2003. This excerpt is particularly relevant to the situation in Maryland. ....Dr. Doug Jones, University of Iowa, Computer Science Department
This excerpt is particularly significant to the situation
in Maryland. You can view the full report at:
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html
"I want to emphasize that this story represents more than
just a black eye for Diebold. As I said in my 1997 letter, it represents
a black eye for the entire system of Voting System Standards promulgated
by the Federal Election Commission and the National Association
of State Election Directors. Not only did the I-Mark/Global/Diebold
touch screen system pass all of the tests imposed by this standards
process, but it passed them many times, and the source code auditors
even gave it exceptionally high marks. Given this, should we trust the security of any of the other direct recording electronic voting systems on the market?"
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