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IP: NSF study: "Internet Voting is no 'Magic Ballot'": [risks] Risks Digest 21.28
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:55:10 -0500
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:24:58 -0800 (PST) From: Terry Carroll <carroll () tjc com> Subject: NSF study: "Internet Voting is no 'Magic Ballot'" RISKS has previously had discussions of the risks associated with going to computerized voting (especially Internet-based voting) as an attempted panacea for the types of problems we saw in the last US presidential election. The National Science Foundation recently released a study that it commissioned from the Internet Policy Institute on problems associated with Internet voting. The NSF's press release on the study may be found at <http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/01/pr0118.htm>. The IPI has a page devoted to the study (including a link to the report itself) at <http://www.internetpolicy.org/research/results.html>. The NSF highlights the following findings with respect to the feasibility of Internet voting: - Poll site Internet voting systems offer some benefits and could be responsibly deployed within the next several election cycles; - The next step beyond poll-site voting would be to deploy kiosk voting terminals in non-traditional public voting sites; - Remote Internet voting systems pose significant risk and should not be used in public elections until substantial technical and social science issues are addressed; and - Internet-based voter registration poses significant risk to the integrity of the voting process, and should not be implemented for the foreseeable future. Terry Carroll, Santa Clara, CA <carroll () tjc com> [These results are rather similar to the findings of the California commission. Interested readers should also dig up the recent Caltech/MIT report, which states that lever machines, hand-counted paper ballots, and optically scanned ballots are all significantly more accurate than direct-recording voting machines (DREs) and Internet voting schemes. PGN]
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