[LINK] New proposal for e-voting - Turnbull

[Jim Birch]

There's a reasonable case for making voting more complex to decrease the
number of idiots who vote.  I'm thinking a set of basic science and maths
questions would be a good start.  :)

Jim


On 10 September 2013 22:48, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:

> It's sounds to me like one of those things imported from the US extreme
> right wing.  Voter ID makes sense in the US because voting is not
> compulsory and it makes it harder for the poor to vote but it's just silly
> in Australia.
>
> On 2013/Sep/10, at 10:22 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:28:52PM +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >> [We didn't hear a thing about it this time, even for disabled access.
> >> What happened to the 'next big thing'? I'd be interested in Linkers'
> >> view of the security of evoting now - have things changed or is
> >> Diebold still sus?]
> >
> > diebold is worse than suss. diebold and other commercial US voting
> > machines have so many security holes in them that it goes way beyond
> > mere incompetence - they could only have been designed deliberately that
> > bad.
>
> Agreed, as for electronic voting there are simple ways of doing it
> reasonably well - like having the machine print out your ballot, so you can
> check it for yourself.  The real problem seems to be the tallying systems
> and they seem to be just as insecure.  The closer to the centre the more
> likely a simple compromise can compromise an election.  That's where we
> have to be really careful.  What benefits do electronic tallying give us?
>  A slightly speedier but much more vulnerable system of counting.
>
> >
> >>
> http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2013/lets-ditch-the-paper-ballots-and-go-electric-malcolm-turnbull-20130910-2thiy.html
> >
> > to summarise:
> >
> > they're in power, and they're going to make sure they stay in power from
> > now on, even after the australian public realise just how much they've
> > screwed themselves. whatever it takes. and e-voting is far easier to
> > manipulate in bulk than the current paper ballot system.
> >
> > and they're using the same "voter fraud" lies that they used this
> > election to try to disenfranchise voters, and the last election. the
> > same kind of likes that have been used very successfully in the US for
> > decades to keep poor, non-anglo, and non-white people from voting.
> >
> > craig
> >
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