Journal SPAM: E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections 5
Techdirt columnist, Timothy Lee, hit the metaphoric nail on the head, claiming that e-Voting undermines the public perception of election fairness - even when there is no evidence of wrong doing. "In a well-designed voting system, voters shouldn't have to take anyone's actions on faith. The entire process should be simple and transparent, so that anyone can observe it and verify that it was carried out correctly. The complexity and opacity of e-voting machines makes effective public scrutiny impossible, and so it's a bad idea even in the absence of specific evidence of wrongdoing." Add to this the possibility technical faults, conflicts of interest and evidence of tampering, how long before the US vote is viewed as an electronic pantomime?
Isn't that the point? (Score:1)
"That's what the computer said so it must be true".
Or even better "We read the result on the internet so it must be true"
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And yet, a five-year study... (Score:1)
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These studies seem to analyse the concept - without vulnerability testing of specific machines and their particular configurations. Nor were actual breaches of custody and handling operations investigated.
This has been done by Matt Blaze, and by Bev Harris and the BBV team.
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