[LINK] Estonia to hold online elections

[Rick Welykochy]

Sandra Henderson wrote:

> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6161005.html
> "The Baltic state of Estonia plans to become the world's first country
> to allow voting in a national parliamentary election via the Internet
> next month...Computer specialists have estimated 20,000 to 40,000 of
> 940,000 registered voters will vote via the Internet from February 26 to
> 28, ahead of the March 4 election day. ..The voting will take place by
> people putting their state-issued ID card, which has an electronic chip
> on it, into a reader attached to a computer and then entering two
> passwords. "

Goodbye to a secret ballot. There are no guarantees that absolutely no-one
in the system (election officials, gummint employees, even police and
pollies) will look at who voted for whom.

That aside, what about an audit and paper trail, two of the big problems
associated with e-voting machines in polling booths?

I also wonder how easy it would be to conterfeit a vote.

cheers
rickw


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