Reply #71: Avi - Johns Hopkins research on bbv.

[TrustingDog]

This was the first 'big' release on bbv. July of 2002 (?) that was conducted by Johns Hopkins and made bbv finally 'legit' in the media in a scathing report of the fallabilities of e-voting machines. Yes, even CNN spent a few seconds on it.

Avi was part of the team, but it was discovered later (and please correct me if I am wrong in any of these details) that Avi had some 'interest' (to what extent, I don't know) in a voting machine company, a conflict of interest issue, so of course this put quite a different slant on the legitimacy and honesty of the JH report and any conversation about it drew out the 'Avi' thing to distract from the real issue.

So yes, I agree that Avi needed some straightening out. whether he just 'forgot' or whatever the reason - it was a major blow for the project.