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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « Asking for Passwords | Main | Another Biometric: Vein Patterns » August 7, 2007Brennan Center Releases Report on Post Election AuditsYet another good report on elections: this one on post-election audits: "Post-Election Audits: Restoring Trust in Elections." Posted on August 7, 2007 at 12:11 PM • 6 Comments • View Blog Reactions To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. It's actually a report from the Brennan Center and the Samuelson Clinic (at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law, http://samuelsonclinic.org/ ) Posted by: joe at August 7, 2007 4:13 PM As I recall, there was a paper vote record in Florida in 2000, but a full recount was stopped by the Supreme Court. VVPB won't give me warm fuzzies when the problems with our government go so much deeper than the election process. I think overall there is fair confidence in the accuracy of the 2004 presidential race results, and look where that's gotten us. Why steal an election when you can simply lie and obfuscate to win it Posted by: Neighborcat at August 7, 2007 6:45 PM FYI, Ron Rivest presented a paper today at an election security workshop in Boston that indicates that the amount of auditing you have to do to catch significant cheating depends strongly on how close the election was and a few other factors -- it turns out to be a non-trivial problem. Posted by: Perry E. Metzger at August 7, 2007 10:45 PM Off-topic: Travellers from US face EU crackdown US business travellers and tourists flying to the European Union are facing the threat of the same laborious registration requirements that Washington has demanded of Europeans in the latest US security crackdown. In its first reaction to the new US visa law, the European Commission said it was “consideringâ€? a so-called electronic traveller authorisation scheme – similar to the American plan – that would require foreigners heading to the EU to give notice of their travel plans before departure. The threat has been conveyed to senior US officials and lawmakers, with one letter sent last month stressing that a European system would “of course operate on a reciprocal basisâ€?. ABOUT FUCKING TIME! I hope they will fingerprint the yanks, too! Posted by: Anonymous at August 8, 2007 5:55 AM "I hope they will fingerprint the yanks, too!" Didn't Brazil do this to US-travellers? Or even still? Posted by: Paeniteo at August 8, 2007 6:55 AM Brazil did indeed do this to US travelers, but interestingly, only at Sao Paulo airport, not at Rio. Fortunately I've been flying direct to Rio for my vacations. :) Posted by: MadBishop at August 8, 2007 9:27 AM Post a comment
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