News re: E-vote - passport rule - driving license

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  E-Vote Vendors Hand Over Software
Officials for the US Election Assistance Commission (EAC) have announced 
that five electronic voting machine vendors have agreed to submit their 
software to the National Software Reference Library. EAC chair DeForest 
Soaries requested the largest voting companies, representing 90% of the 
software used in voting machines, to submit code to the library so election 
officials could determine whether the software on their machines has been 
tampered with. Mr. Soaries argues that this would provide the United State 
with a "higher level of security and therefore confidence in e-voting than 
we have ever had before." California has already faced such software 
issues: registrar for voters in San Bernadino County Scott Konopasek was 
unable to confirm that software on county voting machines was the same as 
that certified by the state. California also found that Diebold Election 
Systems installed uncertified software on seventeen machines without 
informing the state. Mr. Soaries acknowled!
ges that the library alone cannot protect elections, but must be joined 
with other measures, such as voting machine standards, patch procedures, 
and election best practices. EAC is also planning a clearinghouse for 
reports on problems that states encounter with voting machines.
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,65490,00.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1684026,00.asp
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US requiring new coding on passports from other countries for security.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3954619.stm
 From Tuesday visitors from 27 countries will need machine-readable 
passports to gain entry to the United States.
The United Kingdom, Australia and Japan are among those countries affected 
by the heightening of security measures at US airports.
Machine-readable passports are now standard issue in most countries.
They contain lines of coded data usually beneath the passport photo that 
can then be swiped at airport check-in and at US immigration.
The data allows the information on the passport to be immediately 
cross-checked against databases run by the US security services.

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Facial recognition to be used on driving licences
http://www.silicon.com/0,39024729,39125322,00.htm
Britain's Driving and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) will experiment with 
facial image recognition technology to search for duplicate and potentially 
fraudulent records in its database. The trial will examine a segment of the 
database, which holds around 20 million photographic records. The test will 
assess the accuracy of the technology as well as the accuracy of driver's 
license records. It will also assess the strength of current procedures to 
prevent individuals from obtaining multiple licenses under different names; 
the DVLA detects over 1,400 fraudulent applications every year. After the 
six month trial, officials will determine whether the results justify the 
expense of facial image recognition.





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