Speaker Bo Lapari: Electronic Voting. Will Your Vote Count?

Bo Lipari speaks about Electronic Voting (scary!) at Potluck for Progressives: 5:30 PM Tuesday - November 25, 2003
Sponsored by the Alliance for Democracy -
Downtown United Presbyterian Church
121 North Fitzhugh Street @ 5:30pm
Across from Rochester's City Hall.
Free parking in the City Hall parking lot.
Bo has over twenty years experience as a programer and computer security consultant. His presentation is riviting, informative, and scary.

P o t l u c k f o r P r o g r e s s i v e s:
http://www.RochesterAlliance.org

The potluck meal & introductions start at 5:30pm.

5:45pm - SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER FROM ITHACA!!
Bo Lipari
TOPIC: Electronic Voting: Will Your Vote Count?

Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 requires all states to
switch to electronic voting by 2004. However, this law does not
require a voter-verifiable paper audit trail, that is, a
separate paper record of each voter's vote, verified by the
voter, which will be the final arbitrator of election results.
Without this paper trail there is no way to have a meaningful
recount. Without this paper trail there is no way to know
whether the voting machine has malfunctioned, been programmed to switch votes, or been programmed to give arbitrary results. In states where DREs are already in use there have been several elections in which the results were so grievously suspect they begged for a recount, however, no recount was possible, and nothing could be done to challenge the results.

For more background:
http://www.ithaca.indymedia.org/media/text/00/00/06/C2/