[TriLUG] Open source voting software

[Tarus Balog]

Tanner Lovelace said:

> So, will we ever have secure voting over the Internet?  Highly
> unlikely.  Will, however, we actually have voting over the Internet in
> the near future.  Probably. :-/

What's funny is that the reason for e-voting, because people are too lazy
to go to the polls, is defeated by the fact that to truly enable secure
e-voting would be more work than going to the polls.

A secure system would have to use some sort of "key" technology, and
creating and keeping the key secure would be harder for the average Joe
than going to the polls.

I speak somewhat from experience: I have non-geek friends who believe that
getting PGP added to their systems is "too much work" (even with the free
download, easy installer and plug-ins).

Just a thought.

-T


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