{"id":457,"date":"2003-11-28T13:58:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-28T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=457"},"modified":"2003-11-28T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-28T18:58:30","slug":"california-requires-a-voting-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"California Requires a Voting Receipt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/Activism\/E-voting\/20031121_eff_pr.php\">recently mandated<\/a> that evoting machines used in California will need to print a paper receipt that allow voters to verify their votes and auditors to verify election results.<br \/>\nThis is a tremendous step forward for safer evoting and a major victory for activists in California.<br \/>\nThe need for paper voting receipts is pure common sense. A adversary who is able to modify the results of an election could also modify the electronic logs. Without a paper trail, there&#8217;s no way to track or fix things if the system is compromised.<br \/>\nThe need for open code and open processes in the voting system is also a matter of common sense.<br \/>\nTry out this sentence: &#8220;in a democracy, the voting process should be a secret.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t make any sense, does it? Try again: &#8220;In a democracy, the voting process conducted with computers should be secret.&#8221; Adding computers to the mix doesn&#8217;t change the need for an open voting process.<br \/>\nHopefully the progress in California will provide impetus to activists in other states, and to the <a href=\"http:\/\/holt.house.gov\/display2.cfm?id=6282&#038;type=Home\">Holt Bill<\/a> in Congress, which mandates these safeguards nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California Secretary of State recently mandated that evoting machines used in California will need to print a paper receipt that allow voters to verify their votes and auditors to verify election results. This is a tremendous step forward for safer evoting and a major victory for activists in California. The need for paper voting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=457\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;California Requires a Voting Receipt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-7n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}