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Originally Posted by David M
I am not fond of electronic voting. There is no paper trail with which to audit the votes. There is no such thing as a legitimate recount without paper. I think for everyone's peace of mind we need to eliminate electronic voting. Most computer type people in here know how common an occurance it is for supposedly secure systems to get broken into.
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I completely disagree. Electronic voting is the future and it CAN be secure.
Just a simple reason why: if a website and a database are on the same system, the traffic between the two never leaves the system, hence not subject interception and is secure unless the *entire* system is compromised. A lot of people with a lot more knowledge than myself can easily make it happen. When was the last time you heard of a bank system being hacked? This is infinitely more complex than electronic voting would be.
Electronic voting won't happen for a long time because of politics. I'm not going to go into details on this statement, as that is not a topic for this board, but there is no doubt than elimating humans from a simple count will lead to more accurate results.
Also, how common is a secure system broken into? Please name a few because I can't think of any secure systems broken into lately at all.
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Originally Posted by doctorgonzo
If the machine crashes and loses all the votes, well, I guess the voters who voted that day are simply out of luck. That's not democracy. How these systems are in place I have no idea.
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The answer to this is simple, lack of funding for hardware and software leads to poorly designed software, crap hardware and a severely lacking infrastructure and implementation.