| There are too many concepts covered by the term e-voting. I'm sure the OP wasn't claiming the concept discussed in your link is a universally accepted as secure. That's because someone who thinks any voting method that allows a votes to be bought and sold is of course in a state of sin. Internet voting is one of those methods. Who knows, the OP may have also not been claiming purely electronic voting is a solved problem. Opinions may vary on that one, depending on how secure you think end-to-end audited voting is in practice. If all voters took the time to do the 60 second audit procedure it would of course be perfectly secure, but that's an unrealistic assumption. Which leaves a hybrid system - were the voting is done electronically using an end-to-end auditable system and the initial count is done electronically, but each vote is also printed and manually placed in the ballot box by the voter in the normal manner so if something goes wrong they can be manually re-counted. If that is what the OP is talking about then they are right - such a system is faster to use, gets the counting done near instantaneously, easier to use (particularly for voters with disabilities), is more accurate (because it can point out mistakes in the vote), is less wasteful (because how to vote cards and information on candidates can be presented electronically) and of course is more secure than the existing manual system. And yes, on that the experts agree pretty much universally. The sad thing is I only know of one electronic voting system that did it that way, and it was only a trial. All other deployed e-voting systems I've seen were mostly windows desktop's enclosed in an impressive looking box. Some things in this world are very hard to explain. |