Hardly Anyone Cares About Computer Voting Problems

Avidwriter writes "It's a sad thought that Roblimo explores in a NewsForge article about computer voting fraud and how you'd think all honest politicians would be working to make sure computerized voting systems are open source, and why open source wouldn't hurt well-run voting machine companies' profits. Not that most people care, since they don't even bother to vote, right?"

Comments

Is open source best solution...?

[Fu Ling-Yu]

If the system is open source then you have open source code to the system which means people can see how the system works. This mean that people could come up with back door or understand certain keypresses to activate easter egg and other undesirable outcomes.. The more popular something is, the more it will be hacked.

And does having source code in front of our eye really tell us that the voting system is legitimate? As I read on Slashdot earlier today India is going to be using electronic voting system for next major election. Do most of one billions people in India know to read source code or understand how it work? Again I think not, so open source is not too useful for checking legitimacy unless you are technical and understand to read source codes...