<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">----- Mensaje original ----<br>De: Félix Robles <redeadlink@gmail.com><br>Enviado: viernes, 3 de octubre, 2008 15:55:23<br>> I don't trust voting machines at all, even if they have libre software inside. It's way more secure<br>> against rigged elections to get people to manually count the votes. Every person knows how to<br>> make sure that a manually counted election is not stolen, but one must be an expert in order to<br>> make sure an electronic voting election is not rigged<br><br>No agreement on that; as RMS said, Free Software in voting machines is required, though not enough, to prevent fraud in electronic voting elections; the thing is that there are mechanisms to effectively prevent that fraud -using
mechanisms from traditional voting system, together with isolating the voting machines during the process, checking its software, testing the machine, etc-.<br><br>Of course we can conclude that today's electronic voting machines don't meet such requirements and, thus, are not trustable. Regards<br></div></div><br>
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