Tonya and PQBON's WebLog
This is an editorial about electronic voting from a trade journal I read. I emailed them about making public and low and behold they did. (Normally, they charge $50 to read the articles for a given week.) I thought it did a good job bringing together many of the issues on e-voting.
Undo Electronic Voting; 12/26/2006
Electronic voting machines are a classic example of botching a high-tech solution to a low-tech problem, thereby creating a new high-tech problem. It might be amusing if anything less than our democracy were at stake.
U.S. election authorities are rushing into electronic voting without due diligence, without carefully considering the consequences, and without sufficient input from technical experts. Indeed, the situation is so appalling that I suspect almost any reader of Microprocessor Report could design better hardware and software than we have now. We don't really need electronic voting machines, but if we're forced to use them, let's at least do it right.
Posted by pqbon at January 7, 2007 11:21 PM