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IHT Article: Are Internet ballots a vote-fixer's dream?
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:02:28 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:45:46 -0700 To: dave () farber net Subject: IHT Article: Are Internet ballots a vote-fixer's dream? Hi Dave, Here's a piece in the IHT on Internet ballots that you may wish to share with IP (please remove my email address if you choose to do so). Although electronic voting remains highly questionable vis-a-vis security issues, one gets the feeling that it will become more and more inevitable, given the passage of time. The key question, to me at least, seems to be whether cryptography and other anonymous encryption methods may provide some measure of credibility; still, the possibility of circumventing the system, either from the outside (by hackers) or the inside (through perhaps easter eggs or other methods), makes me generally uncomfortable with the medium, at least until greater credibility can be injected somehow. ---- Jamus Jerome Lim -snip- Are Internet ballots a vote-fixer's dream? PARIS - More than 1.5 million Britons will have a chance to vote Thursday in 17 local elections using electronic voting systems that computer security experts on both sides of the Atlantic say are fraught with danger and an invitation to fraud. Britain's pilot projects in computer voting - which include voting over the Internet - are the latest examples of the move to electronic voting by several European countries in the interest of efficiency, speed and increasing voter turnout by making it easier to vote. Although Thursday is election day in Britain, the electronic polls are already open in some of the pilot districts. More: http://www.iht.com/articles/94643.htm ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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