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kster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-17-09 02:53 AM
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2. To accept electronic electoral result ordinary people need to
have an absolute faith in the accuracy, honesty and security of the whole electoral apparatus (people, software, hardware and networks). This is not possible (see point d and point e), thus

electronic voting is not compatible with Democracy.

It is worthy of attention that the above statement is true whichever technical implementation it's used for voting. In other words.

Vote is unfit to democracy whichever hardware and software it's used!.

In fact let's imagine to have a perfect electronic voting system with all the security, auditing, accountability, meaningful public standards and public evaluations we like. Even in such a very optimistic case in the end all the votes would be stored in anonymous records and this unverifiable data, processed by unverifiable electronic procedures, would decide the (unverifiable) winner of the election.

:)

Thanks..
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