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on e-voting
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:25:07 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Stephen Unger <unger () cs columbia edu> Date: January 15, 2007 3:57:46 PM EST To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Item for Interesting People Dave, Following is an abstract and URL for your IP list. It is an article I wrote on e-voting. (I couldn't find any information on the list website about how to submit an item.) Best regards, Steve ........... Stephen H. Unger Professor Computer Science Department Columbia University ............ E-VOTING: BIG RISKS FOR SMALL GAINS Stephen H. Unger, January 12, 2007 Abstract E-voting is vulnerable to all the corruption techniques associated with traditional elections based on strictly manual operations. In addition, there is an open-ended collection of e-cheating methods that can be implemented on a large scale by relatively few people, despite well monitored election-day operations. Even under ideal conditions, it would be extremely difficult to detect many of the conceivable e-cheating methods. Furthermore, in addition to being grossly inadequate, the testing and certification procedures prevalent today in every state are frequently violated. Hence there is little assurance that elections held under these conditions are generating results corresponding to the actual votes cast. The ostensible motivation for using e-voting stems largely from the dramatic 2000 election problems that were associated with punched card voting systems. A better approach is to have teams of poll workers and poll watchers manually count ballots manually marked by voters. This simple, time-tested method, used in most industrialized countries outside the US, seems to work very well. When did you last hear about election fraud in Canada, Germany, or Sweden, for example? The bottom-line argument is that there are no advantages of e-voting over the manual approach that come anywhere near compensating for the great increase in the likelihood of fraud and error. For the full article see: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~unger/articles/e-voting1-11-07.html .............. ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: Archives: http://archives.listbox.com/247/
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