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Online Voting In 2004 To Require Windows
letxa2000 writes "According to this article at CBS, a trial Internet voting system will be made available to 100,000 voters in 2004--particularly military and overseas U.S. citizens. As an American living overseas I think this is a step in the right direction. But the article also says 'Voters using SERVE can register to vote and cast their ballots from any computer using Microsoft Windows with Internet access.' Why the Windows requirement? Is that really going to make online voting secure?"
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Ok, so it's pandering that this will get modded as funny, but I'm a whore for good karma!
Why the Windows requirement?
Because your vote has to be sent to Redmond to be "verified" and rejected in the case of an "incorrect" vote.
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Do you like German cars?
All those hermits who never leave the house are going to be able to vote. How long do you think it will be until they repeal the Sun?
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
You fools! Surely the computers will be exploited for this! This could lead to something completely unprecedented like one man being backed by the majority of American voters for the presidency and then the other man winning, as crazy as that example is!
Landslide wins / losses will become buffer overflow wins and losses.
Over here, we call them "ballot boxes". HTH!
YLFIOne god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
A friend of mine suggested tonight that since American power extends so far around the world, it would only be fair to let everyone vote in US elections, not just US citizens.
One major problem with that would be that they wouldn't know enough about our candidates. Oh, wait, never mind.
Yes, and I commend MS for breaking my box three times with their Software Update.
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Microsoft is a good true bluebloodnobull American company type thang. We limit electionizing to US citizens, those who have swearified allegiancy to the USA. Thereforce, why should we permittify the use of computer magic developed by foreign wizards and sorcorers, some of them which may be tied with al Quaestionable organizatiables? We shouldn't misunderestimatify them.
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oh brave new world, that has such people in it!
As for security, hmph. It's hard to think of a computer company with a worse record. I imagine someone will make a "I vote you" virus that votes early and often for everyone.
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Online voting is being incouraged
Maybe so, but it is being encouraged because of cost, as aut0pron states above.
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> unless you're a cracker with extremely intimate
> knowledge of the OS kernel itself, it'll be
> very hard to hack into my system.
Thank goodness those who would steal an election would only hire bumbling goofballs.
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"Why the Windows requirement?
They wanted to use a stable, reliable, and secure operating system to ensure that all American voters have equal and unhindered access to their right to vote.
Unfortunately, they couldn't think of anything, so they just chose Windows.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
I need more vodka...
The Windows requirements is to put a stop to those damn Commies voting.
I'm sorry, your government has performed an illegal action and must be shut down. If the problem persists, please contact your beaurocratic vendor.
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