[IP] IHT Article: Are Internet ballots a vote-fixer's dream?

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:45:46 -0700
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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.

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Jamus Jerome Lim

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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



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