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Pat Vesely
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Pat_vesely
Post Number: 481
Registered: 02-2006
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 2 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 - 4:44 pm: | 
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http://www.thepublicballot.org/2007/6/28/ohio-secret-ballot-compromised-methodol ogy-exposed
Ohio Secret Ballot Compromised - Methodology Exposed
June 28th, 2007
Press Release with Diagram (PDF)
Privacy expert James Moyer and data analyst Jim Cropcho have discovered a critical flaw in Ohio’s election system that represents a severe threat to the privacy rights of Ohio voters. Using public records, Moyer and Cropcho can demonstrate how to retrieve an individual’s cast ballot in several affected Ohio counties.
“The existence of this vulnerability represents a betrayal of Ohioans, who deserve to vote in security and confidence, free from concerns that secret ballots can become public knowledge,” Moyer said.
The technique takes advantage of the time stamps found on voting machine paper tapes in conjunction with the serial numbers assigned to the voters, which are recorded by the poll workers in the poll books.
“For all practical purposes, we can accurately decode ballots and match them to the voters in the affected counties, at a high level of accuracy, for 2006 voters and all future elections unless substantial changes are made,” Moyer says. As proof of concept, Moyer and Cropcho have decoded a precinct in Delaware County using public records, for an election held in March 2006. A chart, located in the accompanying press release PDF, is provided to explain the method graphically.
Moyer and Cropcho warn, however, that severe privacy issues remain in any Ohio county where voting machines print a paper trail on a roll. Observers may record which voter used which machine, and then compare that information with the paper tape records, thereby allowing for the electors’ votes to be known.
A special thanks to Kurt Olsen for chart design.
http://www.thepublicballot.org/2007/6/28/ohio-secret-ballot-compromised-methodol ogy-exposed
Pat A. Vesely ;-)
Paper ballots are the 'Currency of Democracy'. They've been helping to curb election fraud since 139 BCE!
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Bev Harris
Board Administrator
Username: Admin
Post Number: 6395
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? 
Votes: 3 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 2, 2007 - 10:25 am: |
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Thanks for posting this, Pat. I've been conversing on and off with James Moyer for a while now on this. And lest anyone think it's no big deal, consider this: They were able to differentiate that a husband had voted differently than his wife.
Really outstanding work, and yet each time I see things like this I have to shake my head and wonder how citizens can see the problem in two minutes, when the supposedly smart people doing the designing, testing, certification, procurement and implementation never seem to see these things.
On the one hand it's a testomonial to the importance of citizen vigilence. But on the other hand, when taken as a whole, the massive body of citizen research showing that the systems to not comply with basic requirements provides circumstantial evidence that people at the top are corrupt. |
Bruce Sims
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Ubetchaiam
Post Number: 988
Registered: 06-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, July 2, 2007 - 6:43 pm: |
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And this report is not just germane to Ohio, but anywhere. |
Brant Lamb
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Username: Brantl
Post Number: 1398
Registered: 01-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 - 7:23 am: |
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quote:But on the other hand, when taken as a whole, the massive body of citizen research showing that the systems to not comply with basic requirements provides circumstantial evidence that people at the top are corrupt.
Or, alternatively, not smart enough to be able to find their butts in the dark, if their butts were on fire. |
Brant Lamb
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Brantl
Post Number: 1399
Registered: 01-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 - 7:20 am: |
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Or, as a third alternative, both. |
Joseph Hall
Frequent Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Joehall
Post Number: 128
Registered: 01-2005
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Friday, July 6, 2007 - 7:51 pm: |
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Not a lot of details in this... ideally, they'd publish a detailed paper with data, stats and things like how probable their matches are (how sure they have a match), etc. Current systems and procedures definitely don't do well on the privacy front. |
V. Kurt Bellman
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Username: Formerelecdir
Post Number: 1130
Registered: 04-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Saturday, July 7, 2007 - 12:41 pm: |
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I just read this thread. (I have a bad habit of just using "Past 24 Hours")
This is EXACTLY and PRECISELY why continuous roll paper trails are ILLEGAL in Pennsylvania. We didn't need Moyer and Cropcho to figure this out for us. We, as a state, took one look at existing paper trail solutions and decided they were illegal and Unconstitutional, FOR THIS VERY REASON!
So all we have are PAPERLESS DRE's. |
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