Democracy Now: Interviews Bruce Funk and David Dill

[Wilms]

Thanks to babylonsister's GD post, http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1319527&mesg_id=1319527 we're afforded, this morning, Amy Goodman's interview.

Give the GD post a kick and a rec.

Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security Flaws Ever Documented

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

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A report released earlier this month details what experts say are the most serious electronic voting machine flaws ever documented. We speak with David Dill, a computer science professor at Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org as well as a former Utah county clerk who was forced out after having Diebold voting machines independently tested in his county. A report released earlier this month details what experts are saying are the most serious electronic voting machine flaws ever documented. The author of the report is Harri Hursti. He is a Finnish security expert who analyzed Diebold voting machines for an organization called Black Box Voting. Hursti wrote in the report that the defects in the machines could "cast a serious question over the integrity of the vote” and that “someone could attack the system to selectively disenfranchise groups of voters through denial of service.”

Though the report has received considerable attention, less known is about how the report came to light. Back in March, Bruce Funk, the County Clerk of Emery County, Utah, asked Black Box Voting to analyze Diebold machines the county was considering implementing. When the flaws were exposed, representatives from the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s office, state elections officials and the Attorney General’s office flew into Emery to meet with Funk. They were accompanied by representatives from Diebold who threatened the county with punitive actions for testing their equipment. Bruce Funk was forced to resign.

* Bruce Funk, former County Clerk of Emery County, Utah.
* Professor David Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330240

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. Wow, don't miss this

This is great.

Watching it now, Amy doing good job of interview, of emphasizing important
facts.

Do watch this!

[EFerrari]

2. Done. TG for Amy. n/t

[Stevepol]

3. This is a tremendous segment on Democracy Now!!

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

4. I've been listening to the podcast, and it is really good.

Interesting that David Dill of Stanford (who along with Rubin, Mercuri have been major computer science voices about the evoting problems) states

"The most detailed report is available at the Black Box Voting website, and what it describes is basically several different levels at which different kinds of software can be installed in the machine, and normally what you would expect is at least a password that is not widely known, that would have to be given in order to prevent the software from being installed, and apparently the machines don't even have that requirement."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/31/1330240

The Hursti report. That IS the one that some people jumped all over bev h for, is it not?