Yup, mine.
Stating that per se electronic voting machines are not reliable shows how little you know about technology. "Black" boxes like that one are used in airplanes, trains, and ARE reliable. To make it reliable some mechanisms exist: use double recording of the results, encode them properly, use a good authentication mecanism to get the results and voila, you're done.
Being french, the main problem about the voting machines here has never been security, but bad design. For example, the "vote" button on the top of the machine (wtf?!). Also, many people never use a touch screen, even to get cash from a dispenser. I know some that still ask someone to do that for them or just go into the bank to get it.
Electronic voting machines CAN be reliable, and should be a choice in my opinion. I would probably trust more a quite long key to encrypt my result rather than the one who's going to read my vote, because, as all humans, he IS error-prone.
...Some people think its fine that way. A friend of mine, quite pro-ms, told me that all those little strange things in the specification where normal to have backwards compatibility, and that reading the specification was a waste of time. Instead, he directed me towards a preview of Ms office 2007.
Because for him, as for many more, what's important is the final product, the cuteness of the buttons, the way it works and displays its own format. Why bother using a free program that displays word documents badly, when Office is already perfect huh?
I feel so misunderstood sometimes. What makes me sad is that they don't see the use of a clear straight-to-the-point format. Maybe only geeks can be horrified by this one.
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Yup, mine. Stating that per se electronic voting machines are not reliable shows how little you know about technology. "Black" boxes like that one are used in airplanes, trains, and ARE reliable. To make it reliable some mechanisms exist: use double recording of the results, encode them properly, use a good authentication mecanism to get the results and voila, you're done. Being french, the main problem about the voting machines here has never been security, but bad design. For example, the "vote" button on the top of the machine (wtf?!). Also, many people never use a touch screen, even to get cash from a dispenser. I know some that still ask someone to do that for them or just go into the bank to get it. Electronic voting machines CAN be reliable, and should be a choice in my opinion. I would probably trust more a quite long key to encrypt my result rather than the one who's going to read my vote, because, as all humans, he IS error-prone.
...Some people think its fine that way. A friend of mine, quite pro-ms, told me that all those little strange things in the specification where normal to have backwards compatibility, and that reading the specification was a waste of time. Instead, he directed me towards a preview of Ms office 2007. Because for him, as for many more, what's important is the final product, the cuteness of the buttons, the way it works and displays its own format. Why bother using a free program that displays word documents badly, when Office is already perfect huh? I feel so misunderstood sometimes. What makes me sad is that they don't see the use of a clear straight-to-the-point format. Maybe only geeks can be horrified by this one.