Electonic Voting

[Udhay Shankar N]

Very timely.

Udhay

http://www.infosecwriters.com/hhworld/hh9/voting.txt


                  Hitchhiker's World (Issue #9)
              http://www.infosecwriters.com/hhworld/


                     Observable Elections
                     --------------------

     Vipul Ved Prakash <mail @ vipul.net>
     November 2004


     This is an interesting time for electronic voting. India,
     the largest democracy in the world, went completely paper-
     free for its general elections earlier this year. For the
     first time, some 387 million people expressed their
     electoral right electronically. Despite initial concerns
     about security and correctness of the system, the election
     process was a smashing success. Over a million electronic
     voting machines (EVMs) were deployed, 8000 metric tonnes of
     paper saved[1] and the results made public within few hours
     of the final vote. Given the quarrelsome and heavily
     litigated nature of Indian democracy, a lot of us were
     expecting post-election drama, but only a few, if any,
     fingers were found pointing.

     Things didn't fare so well in the United States.

<SNIP, rest at URL>

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((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))


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