Comments on: Standards to stimulate e-voting?

Experts gather at MIT conference to discuss the many obstacles blocking the adoption of voting technology.

[rcrusoe]

We don't need e-voting

We don't need to know who won an election 5 minutes after the
polls close, but we do need to know how the people voted. I'm
not sure we've really known that for the past couple of decades.

Forget e-voting, forget punch cards. Let's go back to paper
ballots that require the voter to write an X next to his choice. If
we do that, the time we spend counting ballots will still be less
than the time and money spent challenging the results in court.

Heck, even people in Broward county Florida should be able to
get it right with paper ballots.

[Sparky672]

I'm with you.

YES - WE NEED E-VOTING. In a world where Windows is
perfectly secure, all hacking has been eliminated, and Javascript
works flawlessly in all browsers. Bring on the e-Voting!

Can you imagine a system where you would never know if the
results had been tampered? Nothing tangible whatsoever to
look at afterwards.... just some numbers on a server someplace.
Geez! Are these people crazy?

At least with online banking, the numbers are tied to account
numbers which are tied to names which are tied to physical
addresses which get a paper statement mailed to them. The
users can see if something is wrong and an audit can be
conducted.

Voting is supposed to be anonymous which really puts a crimp
on these types of transparent audits.

Besides all of that... if you're too lazy to get off your @ss and do
your civic duty then we don't need your vote. (excluding shut-
ins where we already have a working absentee system for people
who are physically unable to get to the polls)

[G.Nuisance]

haha...

Good point But, Florida would probably say they couldn't read the X or that the pen was out of ink... then what? carving it in stones? then it would be, Well, um.. the voter didnt hit the chisel hard enough. - no. i dont think so.

They just need someone with some since overseeing the E-Voting. its a great idea but whoever designed the current machines/technology was an idiot.

[My-Self]

How Diebold delivers for Bush ...

This complete analysis, from the Center for Information Technology Policy of Princeton University shows how easy vote tampering is with Diebold Election Systems voting machine.

See the demonstration video:
http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

Those machines are a real joke, and that's how Bush got "elected" in 2004 and how they plan to avoid a debacle in the upcoming midterm election ...

Any proof they ever used it ? Hell no, the system is carefully designed to leave no proof !