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Yahoo! News - Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting System
by Rattle at 10:26 am EST, Jan 22, 2004

] "Internet voting presents far too many opportunities for
] hackers or even terrorists to interfere with fair and
] accurate voting, potentially in ways impossible to detect,"
] the computer experts said in a statement. "Such tampering
] could alter election results, particularly in close contests."

] "Not only could a political party attempt to manipulate
] an election by attacking SERVE, but so could individual
] hackers, criminals, terrorists, organizations such as the
] Mafia and even other countries," the report said.

... but it seems they are continuing with plans anyway.

I don't get the logic in play here.. If you had asked me several years ago what I thought would happen if these situations came up, I would have said that I'd expect the government to be very conservative when it came to the voting system. I would have though that they would have resisted all this Internet/electronic based voting system stuff way beyond the point where security professionals had given it a clean bill of health.

Why is it so important to have Internet voting systems? If there is reason to believe they are flawed, why still push? There is either a complete disconnect of logic, or other motives in play. I don't see how Florida changed the logic you'd apply to the problem..

Integrity of the voting system should take precedence over connivence, in all cases. No one seems to think any of these systems are secure, except for the people who make them.


 
RE: Yahoo! News - Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting System
by Decius at 12:36 pm EST, Jan 22, 2004

Rattle wrote:
] I don't get the logic in play here.. If you had asked me
] several years ago what I thought would happen if these
] situations came up, I would have said that I'd expect the
] government to be very conservative when it came to the voting
] system.

They're going live in Feb, so, basically, they built first and asked questions later. They aren't going to throw this thing away. They probably got pressure to do an audit. Of course, asking Avi Rubin to audit your internet voting system is like asking what Howard Dean thinks about you capital gains tax cut. They probably hand selected the other members of their panel as well, specifically so they could generate this "minority report" spin.

The fact is that they just don't beleive in this kind of fraud, because every time they have changed the technology associated with voting there have been protests. They won't get the difference this time until there is a disaster.


 
RE: Yahoo! News - Pentagon Stands by Internet Voting System
by BridgetAG at 8:44 am EST, Jan 23, 2004

"I don't get the logic in play here.. If you had asked me several years ago what I thought would happen if these situations came up, I would have said that I'd expect the government to be very conservative when it came to the voting system."

Unless you are a government that came to power exploiting flaws in a voting system.


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