At 12:28 AM -0500 2/1/07, Dave Ketchum wrote: >Step back, and think of the many places where we use computers BECAUSE, if >designed and built to provide a service, they are the best way to get it >done successfully:
NIST is charged under HAVA (Help America Vote Act) with providing technical advice. In a draft report that they recently issued, they say: >Are there ways to improve DREs so that they can be made secure and >fully auditable? NIST and the STS do not know how to write testable >requirements to satisfy that the software in a DRE is correct. The >use of COTS software in DREs causes additional problems; having, for >example, a large opaque COTS operating system to evaluate in >addition to the voting system software is not feasible. The draft is available here: http://vote.nist.gov/DraftWhitePaperOnSIinVVSG2007-20061120.pdf -- /Jonathan Lundell. ---- election-methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
