{"id":2651,"date":"2010-03-15T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2010-03-16T19:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T03:11:50","slug":"final-ams-electoral-fraud-reports-and-revised-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2010\/03\/15\/final-ams-electoral-fraud-reports-and-revised-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Final AMS Electoral Fraud Reports and Revised Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve uploaded and posted links to all of the reports arising from the AMS Electoral Fraud investigation on our Twitter feed<\/a> but since not everyone is twitter-savvy just yet, here are the links to:<\/p>\n

Final Report from Isabel Ferreras<\/a> (Elections Administrator)<\/p>\n

Report from Forensic Data Recovery<\/a> (Independent Auditing Firm)<\/p>\n

Revised Elections Results<\/a> presented in a somewhat awkward format.<\/p>\n

Final cost to the AMS: currently estimated at $42,000-43,000.<\/p>\n

A few things to note from FDR’s report:<\/p>\n

1) The hack was as simple as what was outlined in our earlier post<\/a>: CWL validation only occurred when the ballot was displayed. Once you had the ballot you could look at the html source code, duplicate it to your heart’s content and submit it as many times as you’d like. No verification occurred upon ballot submission.<\/p>\n

2) Where they screwed up was by submitting all the fraudulent ballots from the same IP address, using 18 invalid student numbers, and submitting ballots with hidden form fields filled in.<\/p>\n

3) Submitted ballots could not have been overwritten, but ballots that were saved (but not submitted) might have been overwritten.<\/p>\n

4) 649 of the 731 student numbers can be found in this document<\/a> which was found using Google.<\/p>\n

In the end the only results affected were Senate, VFM and the tuition policy referendum. For the Senate race it appears that Alyssa Koehn is in while Nader Beyzaei is out, though the result of this election was never ratified and so it’s still up to UBC to determine which set of results they’d like to use. Of the 731 ballots cast fraudulently, Nader received 731 votes while Alyssa received 0. (AJ Hajir Hajian also received 731 votes, Jo\u00ebl Mertens got 730, Johannes Rebane got 504 and Spencer Rasmussen got 253 but all were still elected after removal of suspect ballots.)<\/p>\n