Scientists question electronic voting

[Adam Shostack]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:35:22PM -0500, Barney Wolff wrote:
| On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:38:42PM -0500, Dan Riley wrote:
| > 
| > But this whole discussion is terribly last century--still pictures are
| > passe.  What's the defense of any of these systems against cell phones
| > that transmit live video?
| 
| A Faraday cage.
| 
| Seriously, what current or historic voting system would defend against
| these risks?  We certainly don't want an electronic system that is more
| vulnerable than existing systems, but sticking with known-to-be-terrible
| systems is not a sensible choice either.

Break the trust of the vote buyers and sellers by making confirmation hard.

Pictures in the booth of party line ballots that you can draw over the
screen would be very hard to distinguish from the real thing over a
cell-phone quality video picture.

Adam

-- 
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume



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