{"id":4504,"date":"2016-08-08T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2016-08-08T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T22:16:41","slug":"manipulating-the-vote-ctd-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/08\/manipulating-the-vote-ctd-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipulating the Vote, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/04\/13\/manipulating-the-vote-ctd-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">voting &amp; voting systems<\/a>, Nicholas Weaver on <em><strong>Lawfare<\/strong><\/em> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/secure-vote-today\" target=\"_blank\">important point<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the same time, it is critical to ensure that the voting process is explainable.\u00a0It is almost a sport among\u00a0academics to develop computer-only voting schemes where, thanks to cryptographic magic, a voter can verify that her vote was correctly counted. Yet such schemes invariably fail the \u201cparent test.\u201d\u00a0I can\u2019t understand them myself without considerable effort, so there is no hope for me to explain them to my mom and dad.\u00a0Such systems may work for a board election of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iacr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">International Association for Cryptologic Research<\/a>, but they can\u2019t work for a regular election.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, this\u00a0perhaps surprising conclusion is effectively universal amongst computer security practitioners: the voter must either directly mark a paper ballot or the voting machine must clearly print out a record of the vote, which the voter then puts in the ballot box.\u00a0Unless a DRE machine has such a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail, we must assume it can be compromised.\u00a0Worse, as Dan Wallach explains, a DRE without VVPAT system can be compromised without actually being compromised: if someone, including a simply unhinged candidate, gives the losers a credible reason to believe the result is fraudulent, the voting system has failed whether it has failed in a technical sense or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good to see the experts agreeing with me &#8211; computer voting systems are a fad which need to be discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to voting &amp; voting systems, Nicholas Weaver on Lawfare has an important point: At the same time, it is critical to ensure that the voting process is explainable.\u00a0It is almost a sport among\u00a0academics to develop computer-only voting schemes where, thanks to cryptographic magic, a voter can verify \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/08\/manipulating-the-vote-ctd-6\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}