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Re: 2008: The year of hack the vote?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Dec 28 12:20:38 2007

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:32:35 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: dan@geer.org
Cc: Kevin Kretz <kevin@kretz.net>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20071226213455.68C693434B@absinthe.tinho.net>

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 04:34:55PM -0500, dan@geer.org wrote:
| Quoting my friend Marcus Ranum, the Internet
| will remain as insecure as it can and still
| apparently function.  Why should voting be
| different?

Voting is different (by which I mean worse) because the requirements
are hard.

Should voters and ballots be identified? Should you be required to
show up in person? What about confirmability? How important is that
versus usability?

Electronic commerce, by comparison, is a walk in the park.

Adam

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