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Swiss Town Holds First Internet Vote
felix.rauch writes "According to an article on Swissinfo, a small town near Geneva (Switzerland) held the first Internet-based vote this weekend. 44% of the voters (323) cast teir ballot over the Internet. Officials believe it may have been the first Internet-vote worldwide. While the Swiss media seem enthusiastic about the project, I see serious security and privacy concerns. The voters had to enter a 16-digit password, as well as their birthplace, date of birth and another number sent to them by post. Personally I think Internet-voting should be avoided until it's implemented by an open zero-knowledge protocol and checkable afterwards. Who can give a guarantee that nobody tampers with the results or creates a database with citizens voting information?"
that they're not using microsoft sql to hold the database. Lord knows i've seen enough website that come up with an sql error, and one of the web-based programs that my company has created has sql errors all the time.
people wanting to make it easier to vote. Voting should be HARD, you should have to pass some sort of obstacle course and a battery of tests. I dont want this country run by a bunch of lazy, a$$, couch potatoes who are ill/unimformed. I have been in this country (USA) for almost 20 years, and have about 2.5 years to get my citizenship and cant stand seeing people who have no business voting, just casting their vote to some liar on tv, because he looks like he cares for your(clinton,et al). ARG!!!!!! While I am venting my frustration over this, how about TEACHING our kids that we live in a REPUBLIC not a democracy. I hate people say "hey we live in a democracy", no you dont. "and to the republic for which it stands"
sorry for the rant.
epicstruggle
"Im drowning here, and you're describing the water!"
Don't forget that Swiss who don't vote are fined 50 SFr and the Swiss are known to be stingy. That potential fine skews the data.
Do you have no history of people being forced to vote a certain way by employers, gangsters, and the like? In the US, we must vote in secret (there are mail-in absentee ballots but they are the exception) so that there is no way for someone to be forced to vote in a certain way.