Electronic voting to get scrutiny at Hopkins

[pamela]

Electronic voting to get scrutiny at Hopkins
$7.5 million grant to be used to establish a study center
By Jennifer Skalka
Sun Staff
Originally published August 16, 2005

After widespread criticism about the security of electronic voting systems, the National Science Foundation announced a $7.5 million grant yesterday for a new center at the Johns Hopkins University to explore the reliability of the machines.

Named to head the center was Avi Rubin, a Hopkins professor and longtime critic of the state's electronic voting machines, who said the new center's goal is to design the most foolproof, transparent voting system possible.

The center will be called ACCURATE, short for A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections. The money will be divided among six institutions, bringing researchers with a range of specialties, including human behavior, into the mix.

more- http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.voting16aug16,1,948634.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

[truthisfreedom]

1. watch carefully... anyone who opposes this is part of the vote-rigging.

it'll be a great measure of just who's totally corrupt.

[Quakerfriend]

2. Yup.

Avi Rubin has been great from the start!

[Kelvin Mace]

5. Guess what?

Bev Harris is "skeptical" of this, so I guess you are right.

Mostly, I think she is mad because she wasn't included as an "expert". (Thank God!)

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/9665.html

[TroglodyteScholar]

3. Wow, this is wonderful news...

...I hope it sparks more interest nationwide.

On edit: Took out nonsense that reflected my misunderstanding of the situation...

[SoCalDem]

4. "Study Center" says it all..

Study is a sly way to put off actually DOING something.. I would bet money that the results of the study will be available sometime AFTER the next national election, and that their release will be eclipsed by some fantastical stories that will relegate it to page F-27.

Business as Usual.. more rigged voting, and more apathy..

The sad truth.. We will never again know who actually "won" any election. We have been duped by phony polls and lying media for so long, that we have lost the active-skepticism necessary to motivate people to action.. We have replaced it with a complacent resignation and acceptance that nothing can be done to fix it.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. I Respectfully disgaree

Getting this many scientists behind the effort makes it easier to discredit these machines. The scientific approach is slow, but methodical.

We just passed a bill mandating "paper" in NC by putting the argument on a scientific basis and buy staying away from anything we couldn't categorically prove.

Every time the opposition put an election offical up who railed against paper, we went right back to the computer scientists and pointed out that the officials were clueless.