The Public Ballot

Mike Chapple and his students at Notre Dame are examining an anonymized version of our voter preference records, as well a computer program which I wrote in Ruby several months ago which automates the process of matching a pollbook record to a VVPAT record.

I have been in contact with the head of the Ohio e-voting security review (at SysTest Labs)to verify he had been made aware of the voter confidentiality threat which the ES&S iVotronic machines possess.

Miami University Alumnus Ryan Nowak has theorized that using an advanced statistical model could greatly increase accuracy at failure points (i.e. times which multiple machines undergo heavy activity). His proposal is very intriguing; we will be examining its feasibility around the middle of next week.

A Denver-based e-voting testing laboratory and experts from three universities have been hired by the state of Ohio to undertake independent evaluations of the states' e-voting hardware, software and processes. The move is aimed at finding and fixing potential problems before the 2008 presidential election.

No mention was made of our algorithm for determining how individuals voted, so I will be in touch with SysTest Labs as soon as my phone charges ;-) Read the full article here.

Hat tip to Pam Carney on this one.