On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:48:58PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> The concerns are not with e-voting in general but with the
> /specifics/ of a suggested system for civil elections.
Hmm, I'd have to disagree there. The specifics of the system proposed
for use in Ireland are apalling but the objection is general in that it
applies to *any* Evoting system which does not have a voter-verified
audit trail.
A brilliantly engineered system which has been thouroughly scrutinised,
with fully publshed source-code for everything would still not be
trustworthy for anonymous elections unless it provided a Voter-Verified
Audit-Trail. I would regard that as a general problem rather than a
specific one.
E-voting for ILUG is fine though, because anonymity is not a requirement
and imo not neccessary :)
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