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INTERNET VOTING IS COMING!

Why Is This Idea Important?: Misinformation about the security of online voting dominates public opinion today. Internet voting can be as safe and secure and private as a book purchase, a bank transfer, or a secret military communication. It can also be free of voter fraud and perfectly accurate. THE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THE TRUTH!

Don’t be fooled by the self-styled "experts on security." They are just playing on people's fear for their own self-promotion. They claim that their expertise in reading programming codes makes them Oracles on Internet voting security. In fact, they are engaging in very amateurish social science analysis of cyber crime.

Their arguments, and a list of who they are, can be found at:

www.verifiedvoting.org/downloads/InternetVotingStatement.pdf

Mature social science thinking about the issues they raise shows that they are fear mongers, bereft of rationality.

The paper is available for free viewing or download at:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1420344

Internet voting has the power to make all public officials directly dependent upon the voters. The days of Superrich Domination in US elections are numbered. Internet voting in all US elections is as inevitable today as the rise of the automobile was 100 years ago.

William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.

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Submitted by William J. Kelleher, Ph.D. 3 years ago

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  1. rejean

    I voted this down.I prefer to go to the polling place and pull the lever myself in person.There are too many instances of hackers accessing so called sensitive info on the net. Somebody here posted a recommendation to go back (nationaly) to the paper ballot that I would prefer.Stay on campus Doctor and keep doing governmentaly funded research.

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  2. William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.

    Hi rejean!

    Thanks for your comment. But, have you considered both sides of the issue? If you would check out my non-government funded paper, you might learn to see the issues in a new light.

    wjk

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  3. Big Rooster

    Just another way for hackers to f things up. China keeps hacking our most secure computers and now this???

    Like anybodys votes ever counted anyway...

    3 years ago
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  4. jmc27106

    Please advise:

    Mr. Kelleher, have you received any compensation from an internet voting company or other entity?

    Mr. Kelleher, what credentials do you have to advise us as to the security of internet voting or electronic voting, other than your flimsy political science degree? A social science degree?

    Why is it that computer scientists and even former black hat hackers say that your idea is dangerous to democracy?

    Readers - think - Mr. Hellehr, a social scientist - wants you to disregard the computer science community's warnings against internet voting. Who do you listen to - some guy with a poli sci degree, or the experts on the subject?

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  5. jmc27106

    If Mr. Helleher, social scientist, had his way, our elections could be rigged or blocked by a teenager somewhere around the world.

    Hacker High: 10 Stories of Teenage Hackers Getting into the System

    Student at Downingtown High School West — Downingtown, Pa.

    A 15-year-old student was arrested and charged with felonies in May 2008 for stealing personal data from the Downingtown School District's computer system and downloading files that contained the names and Social Security numbers of more than 41,000 of district residents (including 15,000 students). The unnamed student allegedly accessed the files, which were located on the district’s server, through a school computer during a study period, and officials believe that he copied the files to his home computer. This is the second time in the 2007-2008 academic year that a student has broken into the Downingtown School District’s computer system; another student was arrested for hacking into the system in December 2007.

    ...

    Jeanson James Ancheta — Los Angeles

    In 2005, the FBI nabbed 20-year-old Jeanson James Ancheta, a reported member of the "Botmaster Underground," a group of script kiddies known for their bot attacks and spam inundation. His sinister cyberscheme infected computers at the United States Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Divistion in China Lake, Calf. and the Defense Information Systems Agency, a component of the United States Department of Defense. In the first prosecution of its kind in the U.S., Ancheta was arrested and indicted on 17 federal charges for profiting from the use of "botnets."

    Aaron Caffrey — Britain

    Aaron Caffrey 19, was accused of almost destroying of North America's biggest ports, the Port of Houston in Texas, by hacking into its computer systems. Computers at the port were hit with a DoS (denial of service) attack on Sept. 20, 2001, which crashed systems at the port that contained data for helping ships navigate the harbor.

    The prosecution said that the Brit’s computer contained a list of 11,608 IP addresses of vulnerable servers, along with malicious script. The attack on Houston was apparently tied to a female chat-room user called Bokkie, who had made anti-U.S. comments online. Still, a jury found Caffrey not guilty in October 2003.

    Raphael Gray — Wales

    Raphael Gray, 19, became the subject of an international investigation after he got his hands on 23,000 Internet shoppers' details and posted some of them to Web sites. The scheme, which Gray claimed was an attempt to expose security weaknesses in Internet shopping, cost users hundreds of thousands of pounds. Gray was been sentenced to psychiatric care and told reporters that he felt no regret for what he’d done

    c0mrade — Miami

    In 2000, a 16-year-old from Miami known on the Internet as "c0mrade" became the first juvenile to go to jail on federal computer-crime charges for hacking into NASA. The boy admitted to attacking a military computer network used by the DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) from Aug. 23, 1999 to Oct. 27, 1999. The youth installed a backdoor access on a server that intercepted more than 3,300 electronic messages to and from DTRA staff. The backdoor also accessed at least 19 usernames and passwords of DTRA employees, including at least 10 usernames and passwords on military computers. The unnamed juvenile was sentenced to six months in a detention facility.

    Mafiaboy — Canada

    Over a five-day period in February 2000, Yahoo! Inc., CNN, eBay Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. became victims of the largest DoS attack ever to hit the Internet. The attacker? A 14-year-old Canadian named Mike Calce, who went by “Mafiaboy” online. He became the most notorious teenage hacker of all time, causing millions of dollars worth of damage on the Internet.

    Calce initially denied responsibility for the assault but later pled guilty to most of the nearly 50 charges against him. On Sept. 12, 2001, the Montreal Youth Court sentenced him to eight months of "open custody," one year of probation, restricted use of the Internet and a small fine. Calce later wrote as a columnist on computer-security topics for the French-language newspaper Le Journal de Montréal.

    Ehud Tenenbaum — Israel

    Computers at the Pentagon were targeted in an attack called "Solar Sunrise" during a tense time in the Persian Gulf in 1998. The attack led to the establishment of round-the-clock, online guards at major military computer sites. At the time, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre called the attack "the most organized and systematic attack" on U.S. military systems.

    While officials initially pointed fingers at two American teens, 19-year-old Israeli hacker Ehud Tenenbaum, who was called "The Analyzer," was identified as their leader and arrested. Tenenbaum later became the CTO of a computer-consulting firm.

    Richard Pryce and Matthew Bevan — Britain

    Two teens touched off one of the biggest ever international computer crime investigations in the U.S. when, for several weeks in 1994, they attacked the Pentagon's computer network and tried to get access to a nuclear facility somewhere in Korea. The cyberculprits were identified as 16-year-old music student Richard Pryce (known as "Datastream Cowboy") and Matthew Bevan (known as "Kuji"), who was arrested two years later at age 21. Conspiracy charges against both Pryce and Bevan were later dropped, though Pryce was ordered to pay a small fine.

    414s — Milwaukee

    They may sound like a cheesy '80s band, but the 414s were actually a band of youthful hackers who broke into dozens of high-profile computer systems, including ones at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Later uncovered as six youths ranging in age from 16 to 22, the group met when they were members of a local Explorer Scout troop. These Scouts-turned-cybercriminals were investigated by the FBI in 1983.

    The media took to the story of the youths, who met the somewhat sexy profile of early '80s computer hackers as established by Matthew Broderick's character in "WarGames," which was released the same year that the 414s rose to glory. In fact, 17-year-old Neal Patrick got more than his 15 minutes of fame when he appeared on the Sept. 5, 1983 cover of Newsweek. Most of the members of the 414s were not prosecuted, but their cybershenanigans lead to government hearings on hacking, as well as the introduction of six bills concerning computer crime in the U.S. House of Representatives.

    http://www.itsecurity.com/features/hacker-high-061008 /

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  6. Joseph Hall

    Combining the coercive potential of vote-by-mail with internet network-mediated vote casting is still not a good idea.

    Similar to the rush to purchase inadequate voting technology after HAVA was passed and funded, this is just a bad idea until we have made some significant strides in a number of elements of basic science (regardless of who funds it).

    People interested in these ideas should concentrate their efforts on kiosk-based remote voting models.

    (BTW, it doesn't help to "feed the trolls" and having a back-and-forth here in this forum on this issue with this person is exactly that. Save your breath (hands?).)

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  7. William J. Kelleher, Ph.D.

    All the hackers listed above got caught. Why? Because law enforcement is alert and smarter than them. Read my paper to learn more.

    Kiosk voting is no more convenient than the 18th century trek to the polls we now take on election day.

    wjk

    3 years ago
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  8. Big Rooster

    They did get caught...after the fact.

    3 years ago
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  9. hscomms

    If anything, some of our good friends in the computer science community are a bit too naive when it comes to dealing with the threat of election rigging posed by Von Neumann machines (stored-program computers) which, after all, are at best Voting Machine Emulators -- and not very good ones at that. (Their lack of transparency ought to disqualify them from use in public elections.)

    In 2006, computer security experts (oh, sorry, I meant to say "fear mongers") at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advised the US Election Assistance Commission that "[E]xperience in testing software and systems has shown that testing to high degrees of security and reliability is from a practical perspective not possible." But I guess we can just throw it out there on the Internet and everything will be OK because some social scientist says so.

    3 years ago
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  10. rejean

    Sure am glad my names not Chad,I might get hung.That's the way to go

    3 years ago
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  11. Big Rooster

    So thats why my girlfriend calls me Chad...I thought she might've been cheating...she loves me.

    3 years ago
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  12. yeah_happy_girl

    Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman

    Liberty Counsel

    A crucial hearing will take place next Thursday.

    Please forward this message to your friends. --Mat

    We just received word that President Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee next Thursday in support of the anti-faith Hate Crimes bill.

    This is a follow up to Attorney General Holder's statements earlier this week which amounted to nothing more than politically motivated fear-mongering.

    It is clear what the Obama team is doing...

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    Wednesday NOON, I will make sure these petitions get

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    ++ Now is the time to really turn up the heat!

    This new anti-faith Hate Crimes law isn't really about protecting anyone's rights. It is all about giving Holder's federal prosecutors more power to prosecute their version of political correctness!

    We simply cannot sit by and let the Obama team dictate on this issue and paint Christians like you and me as evil doers and "haters" in this debate!

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    Liberty Counsel

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  13. sobi

    At least the people guiding the vote would be smart.

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  14. apugh96

    This is another attempt of ES&S (Election Systems and Software)to conrol the votes, major red flag. Diebold and Sequoia are two other corporations with vote counting software. This is further votefraud. Three corporations will control the vote counting. Who owns the corporations?

    There is no record of actual votes, no accountability. George Bush was elected president by a fraudulent Diebold vote count and Al Franken sued and won his post because of a similar situation. There would be no proof that the voter was legally registered or that the person registered was the actual voter.

    3 years ago
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  15. rejean

    Sounds like a good way to keep fraud alive,THE ONE is probobly looking for ways to fund this as we speak.

    3 years ago
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  16. Big Rooster

    This must be what the internet czar is for...

    3 years ago
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  17. apugh96

    A good example of this flawed system is right here on this site. The votes are tabulated incorrectly. The numbers aren't adding right when we vote. I vote positive when the topic has 5 votes and the number changes to 4. It happens too often to think that people are voting at the same time.

    3 years ago
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