Tuesday, November 5, 2002
Will High-Tech Save Future Elections
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 07:30 AM
http://www.msnbc.com/news/826193.asp?pne=msn
On this election day as you stand in line, you may wonder why in the world you can't just vote from home on your PC or as you stand in line at Starbucks on your Pocket PC or cell phone. "On a crisp autumn morning in 2012, George got a call from his ballot box. He’d been tinkering with his presidential vote on the Netphone for weeks, and had dropped it in the e-mailbox just the night before. Now the election system’s voicemail was calling him back to verify his vote. A recorded message read off the confirmation numbers, as usual — but this time around, the digits didn’t match. George thought for a moment: Was it just a glitch, or did someone actually do what the crypto company said was impossible? Had his vote been hacked?"
The biggest problem with internet voting is security and vote integrity. "Would Internet voting add to the potential confusion and fraud? Rebecca Mercuri, a computer science professor at Bryn Mawr College and founder of Notable Software, is certain it would. “We’re taking an inherently insecure medium, the Internet, and layering security on top of it,” she said. “It doesn’t work.”
There are small online voting experiments going on right now around the US, most to handle absentee ballots. If those prove successful, online voting for you and me may not be far off. Source: Paul Britton
Of course, in some states, something a bit more simplistic may be in order. :wink: :lol:
On this election day as you stand in line, you may wonder why in the world you can't just vote from home on your PC or as you stand in line at Starbucks on your Pocket PC or cell phone. "On a crisp autumn morning in 2012, George got a call from his ballot box. He’d been tinkering with his presidential vote on the Netphone for weeks, and had dropped it in the e-mailbox just the night before. Now the election system’s voicemail was calling him back to verify his vote. A recorded message read off the confirmation numbers, as usual — but this time around, the digits didn’t match. George thought for a moment: Was it just a glitch, or did someone actually do what the crypto company said was impossible? Had his vote been hacked?"
The biggest problem with internet voting is security and vote integrity. "Would Internet voting add to the potential confusion and fraud? Rebecca Mercuri, a computer science professor at Bryn Mawr College and founder of Notable Software, is certain it would. “We’re taking an inherently insecure medium, the Internet, and layering security on top of it,” she said. “It doesn’t work.”
There are small online voting experiments going on right now around the US, most to handle absentee ballots. If those prove successful, online voting for you and me may not be far off. Source: Paul Britton
Of course, in some states, something a bit more simplistic may be in order. :wink: :lol:
