Re: [ga-ext] On-Line Voting
At 19:00 17/05/01 -0400, Danny Younger wrote:
>I have noticed that the At-Large Study Committee has posted
studies such as
>"Security Considerations for Remote Electronic Voting over
the Internet," by
>Avi Rubin
http://avirubin.com/e-voting.security.html
>
>That particular paper also refers to another recent study (March
2001), the
>"National Workshop on Internet Voting"
>
>Both of these studies imply that on-line elections are not
technologically
>feasible at this time.
Having actually worked with online voting , I must say that there is
a great deal of FUD in reports that seek perfection in security.
Ask election.com or any other commercial voting provider.
Even with a so-called free vote in the Booth, where there is no
password security, I have never found any significant attempt to
cheat.
Iris-reading identification? Ridiculous!
This is not about keeping intruders out of high-security
facilities.
Even rudimentary identification systems should be acceptable
to create a voters' roll.
The postal address system that ICANN used for the last @large
election , was one of such.
If there are 100.000 voters, you do not need watertight security to
keep a dozen false identities out.
Unless there is an extremely close election result, it does not make
any difference.
It certainly is no excuse or reason to abandon on-line
voting.
Just as in paper ballot voting there can be cheating, nobody in his
right mind uses this as an argument to stop giving people the
vote.
--Joop-- Founder of the Cyberspace Association. Former bootstrap of the IDNO (www.idno.org) Developer of The Polling Booth www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/
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