"(Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy" wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:35:22PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote: > > > > We certainly don't want an electronic system that is more > > vulnerable than existing systems, but sticking with known-to-be-terrible > > systems is not a sensible choice either. > > Paper ballots, folded, and dropped into a large transparent box, is not a > broken system. The broken system is the *entire* system -- from voter registration, to ballot presentation (butterfly?), ballot casting, ballot storage, tallying, auditing, and reporting. > It's voting machines, punch cards, etc that are broken. > I don't recall seeing news pictures of an election in any other western > democracy where they used machines. Brazil, 120 million voters, 100% electronic in 2002, close to 100% since the 90's, no paper copy (and it failed when tried). BTW, the 3 nations with largest number of voters are, respectively: - India - Brazil - US Cheers, Ed Gerck --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]