Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Voting

Apparently, when electronic voting is mentioned I tend to go on a bit. So I'll keep this short.
Internet-based voting systems are a bad idea because they are easy to manipulate undetectably. If a paper ballot is suspect, there can be a re-count - not so when it is all computerized. There is a lot of malware out there on home computers and phones which could so easily be re-purposed from stealing your credit card number to changing your vote, and no-one will know it happened. And then someone evil will be elected; for instance, Bender.

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