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VeriSign and Secure Internet Voting

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the oh-this-will-work-out-great dept.

Bucky Katt writes "VeriSign announced Monday that it will provide key components of a system designed to let Americans abroad cast absentee votes over the Internet."

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  1. Electronic voting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Why is there such an obsession with electronic voting.

    Yes, the algorithms for secure anonymous fraud-proof voting exist, but I don't think the implementations are up to the task yet - in particular, if they cannot be independently verified before, during and after the elections.

    There's just too much potential for a fraud to justify dropping the good old pencil-in-the-number-of-your-candidate method.