[TriLUG] OT: OpenVote

[Greg Brown]

This would be nice, but we are too far away from this being a reality
in the near future (sadly).  I've had a vision of an "electronic town
hall" for quite some time where our elected representatives could post
a question in his or her town hall to get a feel for what the
constituents really felt about an issue.

But then I thought since it was so easy (relatively) to hi-jack a
computer over the Internet I thought that wouldn't it then be easy
(somewhat) to electronically submit votes to influence a town hall? 
And if you could do then perhaps it would be possible to submit true
votes, if such an Internet system existed.

Personally I don't think we'll see Internet voting any time soon. 
There is just too much that can go wrong and non-techies (the majority
of the population) still doesn't trust the Internet enough.

Greg

> Can't we move the paper trail off of the paper?    :)
>
> In an ideal (to me) system I would be able to securely vote from the
> privacy of my own home, adjust my vote, and be able to go back into the
> system and check who I voted for.  I suppose that means my vote needs to
> be electronically signed by me, but I suppose not necessary traceable
> back to me...
>
> If you can make voting easy enough that people can do it from home would
> bring us to the point where we it would be possible to have a direct,
> instead of a representative, democracy.  Election day could be every day.
>
> Pat
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