On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 11:30 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote: > That violates the principle I just outlined. Someone could come to > your house and watch you vote to ensure you vote the way you say you > will.
All voting in Oregon is done by mail-in ballot. It's extremely cost efficient and thus far issues of voter fraud, coercion, etc. haven't been seen. I loved mail-in voting. For now I've resorted to registering as an absentee but it's a pain because I have to sign up every year. > It's also incredibly prone to security problems. Developing a secure > standalone voting machine is already too hard; developing a voting > machine hooked into the internet is security suicide. I'm not sure if the successes with mail-in ballots would necessarily translation to Internet voting. The barrier to abuse is certainly lower with the latter. While I don't think it would be *impossible* to do it right, I am sure that it would be non-trivial and the current crop of voting device companies would surely find a way to screw it up. Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
