Reply #102: I am not trying to be a smart ass

[Kelvin Mace]

but I'd like to point out that the system is demonstrably insecure and ripe for abuse.

The nature of the security problem is that *if* someone chooses to rig the system, there is an excellent chance their will be NO evidence of tampering.

This the whole danger we are trying to get people to recognize.

If there is NO evidence of a vote other than what is digitally encoded on a piece of magnetic media, you have ABSOLUTELY NO way of knowing if your vote is recored correctly or not. The whole process may be subverted, accidently or deliberately.

If we show you that the bank's employees can't be trusted, show you that the vault is made of cardboard, show you that the auditors are incompetent or non-existant and show you that the guards are are deaf, blind and have no bullets in their guns, why do I also have to catch a thief in the act of stealing before anyone will admit there is a problem?

David Allen
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