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Security Analysis of the MERGE Voting Protocol - Schneier on Security
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It's Not Magic - Vote Early, Not Often
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| | A Blog by Peter A. Donis
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Verifiable Voting: A Primer
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| | Given the level of distrust in election systems in recent years, I became curious about verifiable voting systems - systems in which you can ensure that your vote was really counted, and counted correctly. Systems in which everyone (or at least interested parties) can verify that election results precisely reflect the votes cast. The verifiable voting system I'll describe is pretty close to "regular" voting for voters. They don't need to care the election is e2e verified, they just need to vote like normal.
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Which voting machines can be hacked through the Internet? - CITP Blog
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| | Over 9000 jurisdictions (counties and states) in the U.S. run elections with a variety of voting machines: optical scanners for paper ballots, and direct-recording "touchscreen" machines. Which ones of them can be hacked to make them cheat, to transfer votes from one candidate to another? The answer: all of them. An attacker with physical access [...]
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San Francisco, two-party town - 48 hills
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| I am increasingly coming to believe that San Francisco is now a two-party city - and oddly, we are seeing that reflected in the race to determine who will run the Democratic Party. Republicans are almost entirely irrelevant in San Francisco (the last GOP office holder, BART Board member James Fang, lost his seat two [...]