Comment Re:What logic! (Score 3, Interesting) 139
Another problem with electronic voting is the complexity. Paper ballots are simple. A mark or a hole punched through some wood pulp.
With electronic voting, there are so many vulnerabilities. From voting machines that will change one's vote to Kodos before it even gets registered on the machine, to votes being switched in transit, there are no real ways to actually protect that info from a determined, well-heeled intruder. Paper trails are still forgable, but we have had thousands of years dealing with paper, and it requires a definite physical presence to alter results.
This isn't to say it cannot be done, but it would require a cryptographic infrastructure from a dedicated smart card that the voter has, to cryptography at every link (so votes added/subtracted from a county would be detected)... and all this assuming the hardware maker didn't add their backdoors.
Maybe NYC is right... time to go back to mechanical voting machines or at least pen and pencil.