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Originally posted by Adder
Oddly enough, I have had computer guys (well, girls, actually) tell me that even they, low level programmers that they are, could easily create programming that would enable secure electronic (internet) voting.
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So could I, which means that I would completely trust any voting program which I wrote. And loaded into the machine. Which said machine I got to go through and wipe clean and test prior to loading. And which I could guard without fail from wiping to loading to voting to counting.
(But, it's not just the "secure" part. As long as the system isn't transparent - i.e., as long as people can't walk away absolutely KNOWING how they actually voted, and how the system recorded their vote, there's no solution. The perception of disenfranchisement - even by whackos - is enough to allow them to opt out of any sense of governance by the winner.)
