tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post7357574458344659777..comments2024-03-28T11:09:38.096-04:00Comments on 90 Miles From Tyranny : Engineer: Software-based Voting Must Die Before It Kills the RepublicMike Mileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14729229224106563792noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6283258643623412113.post-77383888052302385082020-11-19T16:01:36.814-05:002020-11-19T16:01:36.814-05:00I'm a programmer/Systems Analyst by education,...I'm a programmer/Systems Analyst by education, training and employment with 40+ years computer programming experience. One of the issues I have with electronic voting systems is no paper trail. <br /><br />Here are a couple of other things I've observed and which are not difficult to accomplish:<br /><br />* Some voting systems use a smart card to carry the ballot to the voting machine. That ballot is produced by the pool worker entering your name and address into the system which then programs the ballot card which you insert into the voting machine. You vote and it is recorded on that ballot card which you return to the poll worker as you exit to be counted. Is my name now connected to my vote? Have I lost the ability to vote anonymously? (In MD you can request an anonymous ballot but you not all poll workers know how to do it and even if they know, many are unwilling)<br />* Who has reviewed the code for functionality and correctness? All voting systems I know about are closed source<br />* When black box testing, it is not difficult to change functionality based on different indicators.<br />* What's to keep the software from taking a vote pattern and dropping into a "admin" mode to change how votes are tallied?<br />* What's to keep the software from functioning correctly on all days except voting day and then only after processing a random number of votes? I.e. all tests before election day work, only votes on election day are modified and then only after that machine has seen 37 votes?<br /><br />There are so many ways to hide a backdoor in software that it isn't even funny. Look up the "wizard" command for the program "sendmail" for an example of backdoors in software.Thereforehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01907675457092270281noreply@blogger.com