Brazil has been using electronic voting country-wide for more than a decade and no party complains about its security - everyone considers them much more secure than the old and easy-to-tamper-with paper ballots.
I honestly don't understand why there is such bias against electronic voting on Slashdot since, in theory, it's a "nerd community".
Yes, e-voting, after a lot of effort can be compromised. Regular paper-ballot voting can be compromised by anyone, skilled or not, with not a lot
Yes, e-voting, after a lot of effort can be compromised. Regular paper-ballot voting can be compromised by anyone, skilled or not, with not a lot of effort at all. Any voting system can be compromised. I don't honestly understand why the Slashdot community dislike e-voting that much.
Paper-ballot voting can also be verified by anyone, skilled or not. That is one of the most important parts of an election: that virtually anyone can check on the process.
There are also no chances of accidental errors with paper-ballot voting, while bugs in electronic voting machines [blackboxvoting.org] are known to have caused votes to be lost in the past.
Furthermore, you're talking as if paper ballot voting is without any protection at all. At least in Belgium,
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I honestly don't understand why there is such bias against electronic voting on Slashdot since, in theory, it's a "nerd community".
We are biased because we are painfully aware how easy it is to manipulate digital electronic information systems. There is no "record of electrons" - it is always possible to alter information without a trace.
"insecure electronic voting" (Score:3, Interesting)
This is terribly biased.
Brazil has been using electronic voting country-wide for more than a decade and no party complains about its security - everyone considers them much more secure than the old and easy-to-tamper-with paper ballots.
I honestly don't understand why there is such bias against electronic voting on Slashdot since, in theory, it's a "nerd community".
Yes, e-voting, after a lot of effort can be compromised. Regular paper-ballot voting can be compromised by anyone, skilled or not, with not a lot
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, e-voting, after a lot of effort can be compromised. Regular paper-ballot voting can be compromised by anyone, skilled or not, with not a lot of effort at all. Any voting system can be compromised. I don't honestly understand why the Slashdot community dislike e-voting that much.
Paper-ballot voting can also be verified by anyone, skilled or not. That is one of the most important parts of an election: that virtually anyone can check on the process.
There are also no chances of accidental errors with paper-ballot voting, while bugs in electronic voting machines [blackboxvoting.org] are known to have caused votes to be lost in the past.
Furthermore, you're talking as if paper ballot voting is without any protection at all. At least in Belgium,
Re:"insecure electronic voting" (Score:2)
Thank you.
I honestly don't understand why there is such bias against electronic voting on Slashdot since, in theory, it's a "nerd community".
We are biased because we are painfully aware how easy it is to manipulate digital electronic information systems. There is no "record of electrons" - it is always possible to alter information without a trace.