New FL laws to protect vendors: Let CA worry about the damn voters

[Stevepol]

A scathing editorial in the Miami Herald about the new laws aimed unashamedly at saving the government from the embarrassment of a future hack like that carried out by Hursti in Leon County.

Courtesy VotersUnite.



IN MY OPINION
Elections hacks don't guard us against hackersBY FRED GRIMM
[e-mail]

For a county supervisor of elections needing someone to test the vulnerabilities of his voting system, Dan Wallach's the man.

Wallach, who runs the security computer lab at Rice University, is a nationally regarded expert on computer network security and voting system vulnerabilities. He's associate director of ACCURATE (A Center for Correct, Usable, Reliable, Auditable and Transparent Elections). Besides, his parents live in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.

He is a perfect choice. But not in Florida.

Wallach and his associates at ACCURATE may represent academia's leading experts on voting system security, but under the new rules promulgated by the Florida Secretary of State, they don't qualify.

Any security test, the secretary of state's office insists, must be performed by someone certified by the American Software Testing Qualifications Board, the American Society for Quality or the EC (E-Commerce) Council.

Not only is Wallach not certified by the three organizations, ''I've never heard of them,'' he says.

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*The new rules are designed to make sure that they're never embarrassed again,* (Ion) Sancho said Monday.

Florida first priority is to protect the vendors. We'll let California worry about the damn voters.

Link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14803773.htm

[Selatius]

1. The Florida government must be one of the most corrupt in the nation

I don't know why Florida voters won't toss them out on their asses.

[Benhurst]

2. Yeah, why don't they vote them out?

Oh ... .

[FloridaPat]

4. Especially when you consider there are more Democrats than

repubs. A mystery I have wondered about for 6 years now.

[flordehinojos]

5. it is headed by jeb bush ... or, should we say, by POPPY BUSH through the

hands of his other son: JEB.

[wakeme2008]

3. Little problem with your post... It is a Florida RULE not LAW

and put out by the Secty of State. Not the same....

[flordehinojos]

6. in bushco country...a rule put out by a bush ass kissing sec. of state

really translates into the law of the state.