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Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting?
belmolis writes "Here in Canada we have an old-fashioned paper ballot voting system that by all accounts works very well. We get results quickly and without fraud. Nonetheless, Elections Canada wants to test on-line voting. From the article: 'The head of the agency in charge of federal elections says it's time to modernize Canada's elections, including testing online voting and ending a ban on publishing early election results.' Is it worth trying to fix a system that isn't broken?"
Malicious code is the least of the problems with online voting.
It becomes almost trivial to buy/extort votes.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
In Canada ballot counting is done under the supervision of representatives from all of the candidates, The ballots themselves are also kept for possible later re-counting if there is any question at all about the validity of the results.
That is a far cry from an online system where that would be almost impossible.
I just wrote a long-ass comment explaining how the Canadian General Elections are monitored by candidates representatives, but the cert for yro.slashdot.org changed and I lost my work.
No, a digital system does NOT have potential to be more secure than the current system for General Elections in Canada. There is no counting office. Ballots are counted on the spot.