has a full site (in Portuguese, but some of the collected texts are in English) about the problems with Brazilian e-voting systems.
Basic criticisms are: there's no real way to audit elections outcome without delivering the contents of the votes. His claim is that a simple paper trail would be enough, but the Brazilian electoral committee (TSE) refuses to do so for cost reasons and has successfully lobbied congress for many years into keeping this out electoral laws.
The last (almost) global empire, the Roman one, did think the same thing. They thought their legions were unbeatable by anyone in the world, so they just didn't care about improving it, and the number of logionaires was at an all time law by the end of the 5th century. They were still the greatest army in the known world, and unbeatable by any other army.
Then in the winter of around 495 the legions of the Rhine and Danube fronteers just saw something strange. Hundreds of thousands of people were camping in the borders of the rivers. But not Soldiers. Not young and strong man. But Old men and women and children...
As soon as the rivers got frozen by the lower winter temperatures, they just crossed it. Thousands of people, unarmed, weak, starving. And the legions could do nothing, even with better equipment and better training and all the money Rome spent with them. There were simply not enough of them to stop thousands of "civilians" to invade the empire.
I guess the US are just not willing to incur in the same mistakes as the romans did.
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this guy here:
http://www.brunazo.eng.br/voto-e/indice.htm
has a full site (in Portuguese, but some of the collected texts are in English) about the problems with Brazilian e-voting systems.
Basic criticisms are: there's no real way to audit elections outcome without delivering the contents of the votes. His claim is that a simple paper trail would be enough, but the Brazilian electoral committee (TSE) refuses to do so for cost reasons and has successfully lobbied congress for many years into keeping this out electoral laws.
So you are simply stating that we have to fear nothing but the government itself... Or do you imply that governments should be blindly trusted?
Damn.. I was really sure that they had boats and planes in "the barbarian lands" from across the ocean to do the job of the "fozen Danube and Rhine"!
Maybe when the ocean freezes in next ice age they can cross it!
The last (almost) global empire, the Roman one, did think the same thing. They thought their legions were unbeatable by anyone in the world, so they just didn't care about improving it, and the number of logionaires was at an all time law by the end of the 5th century. They were still the greatest army in the known world, and unbeatable by any other army.
Then in the winter of around 495 the legions of the Rhine and Danube fronteers just saw something strange. Hundreds of thousands of people were camping in the borders of the rivers. But not Soldiers. Not young and strong man. But Old men and women and children...
As soon as the rivers got frozen by the lower winter temperatures, they just crossed it. Thousands of people, unarmed, weak, starving. And the legions could do nothing, even with better equipment and better training and all the money Rome spent with them. There were simply not enough of them to stop thousands of "civilians" to invade the empire.
I guess the US are just not willing to incur in the same mistakes as the romans did.