E-Voting Undermines Public Confidence In Elections

Jeremiah Cornelius writes "Techdirt columnist, Timothy Lee, hit the metaphoric nail on the head, claiming that e-Voting undermines the public perception of election fairness - even when there is no evidence of wrongdoing. 'In a well-designed voting system, voters shouldn't have to take anyone's actions on faith. The entire process should be simple and transparent, so that anyone can observe it and verify that it was carried out correctly. The complexity and opacity of e-voting machines makes effective public scrutiny impossible, and so it's a bad idea even in the absence of specific evidence of wrongdoing.' Add to this the possibility technical faults, conflicts of interest and evidence of tampering, how long before the US vote is viewed as an electronic pantomime?"

Comments

How long?

[Stanislav_J]

...how long before the US vote is viewed as an electronic pantomime?

I thought that ship had already sailed...

e-voting or not

[majorgoodvibes]

"...voters shouldn't have to take anyone's actions on faith." Well, that's always going to be the problem, isn't it?

I haven't seen this joke for a while

[Anonymous Coward]

13% Confidant
36% Not confidant
51% George W Bush

Re:That's the plan

[Anonymous Coward]

Thankfully in most districts we have sober and patriotic American companies in charge of our election affairs, unlike the absurd 'open voting' movement who probably want to use discredited and suspect software such as MySQL to tabulate our votes.

with your paper receipt?

[circletimessquare]

(snicker)