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Re: Scientists question electronic voting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Gerck)
Fri Mar 7 16:52:43 2003
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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 13:38:11 -0800
From: Ed Gerck <egerck@nma.com>
To: "(Mr) Lyn R. Kennedy" <lrkn@earthlink.net>
Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com>,
cryptography@wasabisystems.com
"(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
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