[LINK] E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections Even Without Evidence

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Thu Jan 31 15:22:12 AEDT 2008


Bernard,

You beat me by 90 seconds or so ...
> In a well-designed voting system, voters shouldn't have to take 
> anyone's actions on faith. The entire process should be simple and 
> transparent, so that anyone can observe it and verify that it was 
> carried out correctly.
>
> The complexity and opacity of e-voting machines makes effective public 
> scrutiny impossible, and so it's a bad idea even in the absence of 
> specific evidence of wrongdoing.
>
> Timothy Lee is an expert at the Techdirt Insight Community.
>
I think similar things have been said on Link on the same topic ... but 
perhaps not so succinctly.  "Get with the program" types will keep on 
with the "I want e-voting" push, and I suspect will never let up. So 
it's important that democrats keep debunking e-voting as often as is 
needed...

RC



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