------------------------------Black Box Voting : Latest News -- (NEW) with BBV analysis: International News Reports: (NL) 9/07 - Dutch voting computers will be decertified shortly------------------------------------------------------------Posted by Bev Harris on Saturday, September 29, 2007 - 06:45 pm:(From admin) When I spoke to Harri Hursti this week, he indicated thatvoting machines may be on the ropes again in Great Britain as well. Atleast a few people in Europe seem to be coming to their senses. By theway,Nedap voting computers are being marketed in the USA under vendor name "Liberty" wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/Computersniet.nl - Sept. 29, 2007Dutch voting computers will be decertified shortly'We do not trust voting computers' demanded that every single votewould be retained on its own piece of paper in the polling station.And that is what will happen from now on. On September 27, 2007 theKorthals Altes Committee issued its 'Voting with confidence' report.The state secretary for the interior immediately announced that'Regulation for approval of voting machines 1997' will be withdrawn.As a result all Dutch voting computers will be decertified. Electionsin the Netherlands will be held using paper ballots and red pencil fora while. After that, likely using 'vote printers' and optical scancounting computers.We, the proponents of verifiable election results, are winning acrossthe globe! The Netherlands has joined the growing group of countriesand US states that require a paper copy of each vote. California hasbasically rejected voting computers altogether. The UK electioncouncil wants to stop all electronic voting pilot projects. Irelandhas rejected the Dutch voting computers for being too insecure. Quebecand Italy decided to forego the use of voting computers. In responseto our research into the Nedap voting computers, Germany has begun toquestion their use as well. In many countries people are protestingagainst voting computers. Elections without paper ballots are on thereturn.Quick tour:The Nedap hack October 4, 2006: Dutch TV-news program EénVandaagreports about the Nedap voting computer. With English subtitles.Nedap/Groenendaal ES3B voting computer, a security analysis October 5,2006: 'We do not trust voting computers' presents an analysis of thevulnerabilities found in the Nedap voting computers.Breaking secrecy of the ballot with a radio scanner October 10, 2006:a short clip demonstrating a tempest attack against a Nedap votingcomputer.Final Report on the 22 November 2006 Parliamentary Elections in theNetherlands March 12, 2007: Organization for Security and Co-operationin Europe (OSCE).Changing the ROMs of a Nedap e-voting computer in 60 seconds June 9,2007: Chaos Computer Club.Studying the Nedap/Groenendaal ES3B Voting Computer: A ComputerSecurity Perspective August 6, 2007: 'We do not trust votingcomputers' presents a paper at the 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE ElectronicVoting Technology Workshop, Boston, USA.90% of the of the votes in The Netherlands are cast on theNedap/Groenendaal ES3B voting computer. With very minor modifications,the same computer is also being used in parts of Germany and France.Use of this machine in Ireland is currently on hold after significantdoubts were raised concerning its suitability for elections. New YorkState is seriously thinking about buying 28.000 voting computers fromNedap.