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Connecticut Campaign Finance Court Challenge:
What You're Not Supposed to Know About the New Campaign Finance Laws
2006.11.02
While we will try to "reform" aspects of the law in the upcoming
session of the CT General Assembly, we are keenly aware that the
legislators are unlikely to vote to change something that allows them
to essentially silence those who compete against them on the ballot. It
is critical that a credible judicial challenge be in place in order to
encourage the CT legislature to allow third parties equal treatment
under the law.
UConn VoTeR center report: Diebold AV-OS is vulnerable to serious attacks
2006.10.31
A powerful new report was released yesterday about the Diebold AccuVote
Optical Scan voting terminal (AV-OS). This is a thorough and
independent security analysis of the machines that will be used in
Connecticut to count votes on November 7...The authors show that "even
if the memory card is sealed and pre-election testing is performed, one
can carry out a devastating array of attacks against an election using
only off-the-shelf equipment and without having ever to access the card
physically or opening the AV-OS system box." The attacks presented in
the paper include manipulating the count so that no votes for a
particular candidate are counted, swapping votes for two candidates,
and reporting the results incorrectly based on biases that are
triggered under certain conditions.
Related: http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
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