The reason that I posted two very long messages to this list is so that I can give detailed descriptions of the two classes of computers that will be used for election 2010.
The precinct count optical scan machines are digital scanners that read pencil/felt-tip marks (shading in ovals next to candidates names) on paper ballot. The two cases you cited here are cases involving Smartmatic's use of DRE equipment. A voter using DRE voting equipment to vote pushes buttons or virtual buttons on touch screen. Such DRE equipment have been declared unconstitutional in Germany. Election 2010 on May 10. 2010 will use PCOS/OMR. In one of Chino Roces (?) article in Inquirer, he praises the PCOS/OMR, and states that most countries now favor the PCOS/OMR as the computerized voting technology of choice in many countries. So there. //PManalastas --- On Tue, 7/14/09, jan gestre <[email protected]> wrote: > From: jan gestre <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Code Review & SysAdmin of Election 2010 Computers > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 9:18 AM > Pardon me if I might be out of line > here but is Diebold the company that manufactures the voting > machines for Smartmatic? And if my memory serves me right, > this same company (Diebold) whose top brass' are > convicted felons because of large scale fraud, right? Are > the machines that Comelec the same controversial machines > described here > --> http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=73&Itemid=162 ? Take > a look at the findings here > --> http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2980&Itemid=51 . > Smartmatic is saying that the machine has 10% margin of > error, what happens then if margin of victory between 1st > and 2nd is 10%? Manual recount? > > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:53 PM, > Miguel Paraz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 2009/7/13 Pablo Manalastas <[email protected]>: > > > I have been thinking about this > for some time. Smartmatic can not get enough routable IP > addresses to connect > > > the PCOS machines at the precincts to their municipal > CCS/BOC computers. So it has to be VPN involving > > > PCOS machines and their municipal CCS/BOC computers. > One VPN per municipality. Will such arrangement have > > > to be with the blessings and help of Smart, Globe, and > other cellular providers? > > > > They should address this question. > > > > Even if Smartmatic and friends were honest, what's to > stop other third > > parties now from breaking into these systems? Or even > easier, causing > > a denial of service attack - and a failure of elections? > > > > We all know the woeful state of security of government > servers. > > _________________________________________________ > > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > > > -- > http://jangestre.blogpsot.com > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
