Not Quite a Blog 2.0

Here is the 50-page document that has been ruling my life (and the lives of a few others) for the past month:

http://samuelsonclinic.org/projects_papers/2005_vvsg_comments.html

This is ACCURATE's comments on the 2005 VVSG to the EAC. Enjoy. I'll return to this later today or tomorrow to explain a bit under the fold.

Organizations endorsing our comments include the CVF, EFF and VVF.

Rob Lemos at SecurityFocus has penned an article on our comments with a focus on open source: "E-voting experts call for revised security guidelines"

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What I plan on talking about when I get a chance:

• Security evaluations enhancements.
• Open source for voting systems (paraphrasing a paper I'm writing.)
• Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trails.
• Feedback loops.