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jmc27106 9 months ago

IRV is not "as easy as 1-2-3", it is very complex to count and requires central tabulation, opening it up to fraud.
It actually hurts third parties unless they are already strong. That is why countries like AU are controlled by two parties, and Ireland has basically a single party in control.

Implementation of IRV corresponds with drastic drop in voter turnout in San Francisco's mayoral contests;
IRV consistantly suffers from majority failure and several states' fiscal analysis show that IRV creates new and high costs in elections. Additionally, IRV increases reliance on more complex technology, making audits and recounts more prohibitive, further eroding election transparency.IRV does not help racial minorities and may even impede them IRV may negatively impact the disabled.

We need to get better at counting votes the plain old vanilla way, and in a transparent fashion. Voters should be able to understand the process of the election and not require an "interpreter" or expert to tell them how the votes were tallied. IRV's tallying process is not simple, nor tranpsrent.

jmc27106 9 months ago

IRV is a well intended election reform that does not meet its promise.
IRV is not "as easy as 1-2-3",
it actually hurts third parties.
Implementation of IRV corresponds with drastic drop in voter turnout in San Francisco's mayoral contests;
IRV consistantly suffers from majority failure and
several states' fiscal analysis show that IRV creates new and high costs in elections.
IRV increases reliance on more complex technology, making audits and recounts more prohibitive, further eroding election transparency.
IRV does not help racial minorities and may even impede them IRV may negatively impact the disabled.
see http://www.instantrunoffvoting.us/

jmc27106 9 months ago

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.

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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 /

jmc27106 9 months ago

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?

jmc27106 9 months ago

Kelleher what credentials do you have to advise anyone on internet security or electronic voting?

Readers - The Verified Voting Foundation has a statement on internet voting that has been endorsed by some of the best security or computer experts in this country.

Further, one of the most famous black hat hackers in the US has warned against the foolish idea of internet voting.

Mr. kelleher is a political scientist, a sort of social scientist.

That he could write a paper endorsing internet voting shows that he has done no research at all in the issue, or he would have learned that IV is one of the riskiest ways to conduct an election.

Further, his claim that internet voting would increase access and turnout has even been proven false by the internet election conducted in Honolulu Hawaii, just recently. Only 6.3% of the electorate participated in that election, which is a drop of 83%.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090527/0359125027.shtml

http://www.kitv.com/politics/19573770/detail.html

jmc27106 9 months ago

Instant Runoff Voting does not work as well as advertised, and has unintended consequences . Promises that IRV will save money, reduce negative campaigning, simplify elections, or provide a majority all in one election - are just not true.

What are the problems with Instant Runoff Voting? IRV is not "as easy as 1-2-3", it actually hurts third parties. See how Instant runoff voting has impacted San Francisco, the largest jurisdiction in the US to use it. Implementation of IRV corresponds with drastic drop in voter turnout in San Francisco's mayoral contests; IRV consistantly suffers from majority failure and several states' fiscal analysis show that IRV creates new and high costs in elections. Additionally, IRV increases reliance on more complex technology, making audits and recounts more prohibitive, further eroding election transparency.IRV does not help racial minorities and may even impede them IRV may negatively impact the disabled. Instant Runoff Voting Fails to Meet its Hype. See our frequently updated news page .
http://www.instantrunoffvoting.us/

jmc27106 9 months ago

Mr. Kelleher is credentialed as a "political scientist" but has no credentials as an expert in computer science or internet security.

I hope people are not foolish enough or gullible enough to think that since just because someone tags a PHD to their name that they should be listened to on a topci that you have no credentials in.

I thank former black hat hackers like Kevin Poulsen, who knows the possibilities and the "Threat Level" of Internet Voting - and who cared enough to write an article warning about the dangers of internet voting - just recently in Wired News.

I also thank the many other credentialed computer scientists who have served on govt committees that stopped internet voting and who continue to fight internet voting.

jmc27106 9 months ago

I love Pres Obama, but the title is just humorous as all get out. LOL. So I rated it up. (Sorry I have a naughty sense of humor).

jmc27106 9 months ago

Kelleher, a political scientist has just written his "expert" opinion on internet security.

Kelleher has no credentials in computer science or internet security. He is unknown in the verified voting movement. He has no business advising anyone that internet voting is safe, secure or anything less than insane!

Experts in computers and security oppose internet voting:

Read what Kevin Poulsen, one of the most famous black hat hackers in the world (former)says about internet voting at wired news where he is now a Sen Editor
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/06/cfp-evote/

Read what Ed Felton says about internet voting here
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/internet-voting-how-far-can-we-go-safely

Read what Dr. Barbara Simons and Dr. Justin Moore (experts in computers) say about internet voting here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-simons/the-internet-and-voting-w_b_210554.html

See this list of famous computer criminals who were caught and convicted of breaking into computers or computer networks. Some of them started at an early age, and the depth of their crimes will astonish you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicted_computer_criminals

There is too much incentive to rig elections, and with the internet a person can spoof the election site, create denial of service (blocking voting), do just about anything the imagination can come up with.

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