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The Sum of All Votes    [ Rants ]

Was reading through my (month-old) mail from the cryptography@metzdowd.com list, saw this post below.   Interesting idea, to throw a concept like electronic voting into the collective consciousness as a warning - there's a lot of geeks who are worried about this, but Joe and Jane Average Voter aren't concerned (yet).

From: Major Variola (ret) [mailto:mv@cdc.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 12:46 PM
To: cypherpunks@lne.com; cryptography@metzdowd.com
Subject: Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
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>Cryptonomicon.Net -
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>Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

Someone needs to inject a story about e-voting fraud into the popular
imagination.
Is Tom Clancy available? Maybe an anonymous, detailed, plausible, (but
secretly fictional)
blog describing how someone did this in their podunk county... then
"leak" this to a news reporter..
Failure to be *able* to assure that this *didn't* happen in that podunk
county would make
an important point.

----
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament],
'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend
the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

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