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Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting
nazarijo writes "Avi Rubin, a well regarded Johns Hopkins computer science professor and leading critic of e-voting, has written an account of his experience as an election judge on super tuesday. Maryland was experimenting with e-Voting machines. Rubin puts it this way, 'this was one of the most incredible days in my life.' He wrote his experiences immediately after the day was over, capturing his perspective on the subject. A very interesting read."
The issue of coercion and votes being bought goes away with secret ballot. If I'm paid $5 to vote for GWB or JK, the person paying me can now verify I voted as I agreed. Or my boss can verify I voted the way he demanded. Or a thug can verify the way he demanded. Secret ballot = protection. A better way to make sure your vote is registered is to tightly control the process from the time your vote is submitted until it is counted to guard against fraud during this step. Your point about vote fraud is valid but a distraction - no one is arguing vote fraud does not happen, we're talking about magnitude of fraud. More democracy will be denied if secret ballots are done away with. Belchingjester