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Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious Security
Flaws Ever Documented
Citizen Journalism: A Look at How Blogging is Changing the
Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea
Electronic Voting Machine Study Exposes Most Serious
Security Flaws Ever Documented
A report released earlier this month details what experts
say are the most serious electronic voting machine flaws ever
documented. We speak with David Dill, a computer science professor
at Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org as
well as a former Utah county clerk who was forced out after
having Diebold voting machines independently tested in his
county. [includes rush
transcript]
A report released earlier this month details what experts
are saying are the most serious electronic voting machine
flaws ever documented. The author of the report is Harri Hursti.
He is a Finnish security expert who analyzed Diebold voting
machines for an organization called Black Box Voting. Hursti
wrote in the report that the defects in the machines could
"cast a serious question over the integrity of the vote”
and that “someone could attack the system to selectively
disenfranchise groups of voters through denial of service.”
Though the report has received considerable attention, less
known is about how the report came to light. Back in March,
Bruce Funk, the County Clerk of Emery County, Utah, asked
Black Box Voting to analyze Diebold machines the county was
considering implementing. When the flaws were exposed, representatives
from the Utah Lieutenant Governor’s office, state elections
officials and the Attorney General’s office flew into
Emery to meet with Funk. They were accompanied by representatives
from Diebold who threatened the county with punitive actions
for testing their equipment. Bruce Funk was forced to resign.
- Bruce Funk, former County Clerk of Emery County, Utah.
- Professor David Dill, professor of computer science at
Stanford University and founder of VerifiedVoting.org.
Citizen Journalism: A Look at How Blogging is Changing
the Media Landscape from the Congo to Korea
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from Stanford University
in Palo Alto, California where the inaugural TechSoup NetSquared
Conference is being held. The theme of this year’s conference
is “Remixing the web for social change.” It’s
bringing together representatives from the technology and
non-profit sectors to talk about new ways of using the web
and technology for social ends. [includes rush
transcript]
Today we host a roundtable discussion with three people who
have been using the internet to help create a citizen’s
media. From Brazil to Korea to all over Africa, they’re
helping everyday people write articles, produce videos and
maintain weblogs about what’s going on in their communities:
- Hong Eun-taek, editor-in-chief of the International edition
of OhmyNews.com, one
of the largest participatory journalism news sites on the
internet. The Korean site has about 40,000 citizen reporters
that contribute their own stories. The International
edition publishes articles submitted by 600 own citizen
reporters scattered across 60 countries.
- Saori Fotenos, a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford
University. She is founder and director of Vamos
Blogar (“Let”s Blog”). Vamos Blogar
is a literacy program that teaches children in urban areas
of Brazil about weblogging and other forms of media.
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu,
Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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