{"id":582,"date":"2004-05-18T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-19T00:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2004-05-18T19:57:57","modified_gmt":"2004-05-19T00:57:57","slug":"senate-hearing-on-electronic-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Senate Hearing on Electronic Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Senate State Affairs Commitee held a hearing yesterday, May 17, on the implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA).  Professor Dan Wallach and I testified on behalf of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verifiedvoting.org\">voter-verifiable paper trail<\/a>.  (Without a paper trail, there is no good way to audit or recount the result of an election.)<br \/>\nChairman Duncan asked county administrators sharp questions about what happens if there are discrepancies in the vote tally.  Senator Nelson&#8217;s son has worked in computer security, and she asked questions that showed an understanding of the vulnerabilities and risks that affect computer systems.<br \/>\nThe voter-verified paper trail got better reception in Senate State Affairs than at the House Elections Committee hearing on March 31, where the Representatives had a much earlier level of understanding about computer security. Chairwoman Denny dismissed evidence of problems with electronic voting systems in other states, even though the same systems are used in Texas as elsewhere in the country. We have more education to do in the House.<br \/>\nYou can <a href=http:\/\/www.senate.state.tx.us\/ram\/archive\/2004\/may\/051704SAC.ram\">download and watch the video<\/a> of the meeting here on the &#8220;lege-cam.&#8221;<br \/>\nDan&#8217;s testimony is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.rice.edu\/~dwallach\/dwallach-texas-17may2004.pdf \">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Senate State Affairs Commitee held a hearing yesterday, May 17, on the implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Professor Dan Wallach and I testified on behalf of a voter-verifiable paper trail. (Without a paper trail, there is no good way to audit or recount the result of an election.) Chairman Duncan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Senate Hearing on Electronic Voting&#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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-9o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}