[pp.int.general] Towards a secure eDemocracy platform based on Web service standards

[Antonio Garcia]

Most important... for it to be verifiably tamperproof, not only technically, but also from the social engineering point of view.

If we can not have an easy way to verify the election has not been rigged, then we´d better stick to less ´practical´ways of voting that offer more guarantees or at least make tampering way more expensive.

Computers and computerised procedures are too easy to manipulate.


Antonio.
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From: a.halsall at pirateparty.org.uk
To: rms at gnu.org; pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:48:02 +0100
Subject: Re: [pp.int.general] Towards a secure eDemocracy platform based on	Web service standards

On Friday 13 July 2012 01:19:45 Richard Stallman wrote:
>     There is nothing "100% secure-proofed" in a world where we can't even
>     decide if we're living in the matrix.
> 
> The question is not whether it is "100% secure-proofed".
> The question is whether it is grossly rotten or not.
> 
> For traditional voting systems, we have some idea of how
> vulnerable they are -- from simple experience.  For new proposed
> computerized systems, we don't have experience to go by.
> They are surely less than 100% reliable, but are they
> less than 10% reliable?  We don't know, and actually using
> them gives us little information, since we cannot check
> the official results they give.
 
For me it has always been a question as to the benefits of computerised voting.
 
What problems are we trying to solve? Participation? Speed of getting a result? 
> 
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