I've posted this before, but it's worth saying again.
In the early 2000s, there was a GNU project [gnu.org] to build a secure online voting system. They ceased work in 2002, citing the project as being at best difficult and at worst, impossible. They quoted Bruce Schneier, one of the foremost experts in computer security as saying "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers... [B]uilding a secure Internet-ba
The real issue with electronic voting isn't even the hackability of the system. Or the fact that an exploit scales to an entire country. The real problem is that there's no assurance anymore. A very simple process turns into something opaque.
For you americans who don't understand how voting is done properly in the rest of the world, it goes like this:
You put an X in the circle or box of your choice (sometimes several X in several boxes, but nothing too complicated). Then you seal that paper in an envelope o
Having studied this issue for a very long time I'm perpetually frustrated with the Computer scientists constantly injecting overly clever desiderata that can only be implemented at the sacrifice of core requirements of voting systems. the core requirements are 1. Secret ballot so no one can tell how you voted. 2. Secret ballot so you cannot prove to anyone how you voted even if you want to. (too often ignored) 3. transparency at a level where an ordinary person can reasonably see how the security works 4. Robus
Vote by mail only works when things are going along quite well. We just witnessed what can happen when things do not go well in North Carolina, where the handful of mail in ballots spoiled the entire election. Vote by mail allows voter intimidation and vote buying - makes them almost trivial, in fact. People act as if "The Machine" in Chicago never happened, as if we somehow matured away from that sort of thing. No, we implemented hard-fought voting reforms that corrected the problem - some of which vote by
That is very important and didn't see that listed in there in the top level checkoff marks.
I've posted this before, but it's worth saying again.
In the early 2000s, there was a GNU project [gnu.org] to build a secure online voting system. They ceased work in 2002, citing the project as being at best difficult and at worst, impossible. They quoted Bruce Schneier, one of the foremost experts in computer security as saying "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created in the history of computers... [B]uilding a secure Internet-ba
The real issue with electronic voting isn't even the hackability of the system. Or the fact that an exploit scales to an entire country. The real problem is that there's no assurance anymore. A very simple process turns into something opaque.
For you americans who don't understand how voting is done properly in the rest of the world, it goes like this:
You put an X in the circle or box of your choice (sometimes several X in several boxes, but nothing too complicated). Then you seal that paper in an envelope o
Having studied this issue for a very long time I'm perpetually frustrated with the Computer scientists constantly injecting overly clever desiderata that can only be implemented at the sacrifice of core requirements of voting systems.
the core requirements are
1. Secret ballot so no one can tell how you voted.
2. Secret ballot so you cannot prove to anyone how you voted even if you want to. (too often ignored)
3. transparency at a level where an ordinary person can reasonably see how the security works
4. Robus
Vote by mail only works when things are going along quite well. We just witnessed what can happen when things do not go well in North Carolina, where the handful of mail in ballots spoiled the entire election. Vote by mail allows voter intimidation and vote buying - makes them almost trivial, in fact. People act as if "The Machine" in Chicago never happened, as if we somehow matured away from that sort of thing. No, we implemented hard-fought voting reforms that corrected the problem - some of which vote by