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UPDATE [2009-11-05T17:17:41]: The EAC replied and we responded.

Today we sent a letter to the Election Assistance Commission signed by a number of the investigators involved in the California Secretary of State's Top-to-Bottom Review of voting systems.

The letter points out that the EAC, and a lab that performs certification testing of voting systems, disregarded technical information about voting system security from state-level evaluations of a particular voting system.  This specific instance raises broader questions about the EAC's treatment of such information under its testing and certification program.

The signatories include:

• Matt Bishop, CA TTBR Principal Investigator, Department of Computer Science; University of California, Davis

• David Wagner, CA TTBR Principal Investigator, Computer Science Division; University of California, Berkeley

• Matt Blaze, Computer & Information Science; University of Pennsylvania

• J. Alex Halderman, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; University of Michigan

• Candice Hoke, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law; Cleveland State University

• Richard Kemmerer, Department of Computer Science; University of California, Santa Barbara

• Deirdre Mulligan, School of Information; University of California, Berkeley

• Elliot Proebstel, Department of Computer Science; University of California, Davis

• Eric Rescorla, Principal, RTFM, Inc.

• Hovav Shacham, Department of Computer Science and Engineering; University of California, San Diego

• Giovanni Vigna, Department of Computer Science; University of California, Santa Barbara

• Dan Wallach, Department of Computer Science; Rice University