[IP] Electonic Voting (India)

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
Date: November 6, 2004 2:40:46 AM EST
To: <dave@farber.net>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Subject: Electonic Voting

Very timely.

Udhay

http://www.infosecwriters.com/hhworld/hh9/voting.txt


                 Hitchhiker's World (Issue #9)
             http://www.infosecwriters.com/hhworld/


                    Observable Elections
                    --------------------

    Vipul Ved Prakash <mail @ vipul.net>
    November 2004


    This is an interesting time for electronic voting. India,
    the largest democracy in the world, went completely paper-
    free for its general elections earlier this year. For the
    first time, some 387 million people expressed their
    electoral right electronically. Despite initial concerns
    about security and correctness of the system, the election
    process was a smashing success. Over a million electronic
    voting machines (EVMs) were deployed, 8000 metric tonnes of
    paper saved[1] and the results made public within few hours
    of the final vote. Given the quarrelsome and heavily
    litigated nature of Indian democracy, a lot of us were
    expecting post-election drama, but only a few, if any,
    fingers were found pointing.

    Things didn't fare so well in the United States.

<SNIP, rest at URL>

--
((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))


-------------------------------------
To manage your subscription, go to
 http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip

Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/