[LINK] Brazillians have been doing electronic voting for years

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:05 AM 18/11/2006, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>What did I say about delegating democracy to those who can read 
>code? Here we have the problem spun as a positive. This is *not* 
>transparency, because it's transparency restricted to a sub-group of 
>people (PS: a reason that the political class may like and/or 
>endorse e-voting is indicated in this very paragraph. "All political 
>parties for auditing" - a concentration of part of the process 
>upwards to the parties._).

I actually don't have a problem with that level of transparency, 
Richard. All sorts of things in society are handled by experts, your 
term sub-groups, on our behalf and we don't need to know how the 
thing works, but we do need trust that the system is being observed 
and challenged. There is margin of error in every election, no matter 
how perfect it may be designed.

Jan
(who is procratinating writing the last major piece of her latest 
novel; see the blog for info)

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