Re: Vote verification --- a futile exercise?
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 04:51 AM, Richard Braakman wrote:
Indeed. We're geeks, and the election is a new toy that we're taking
apart to see how it works :-)
<rant>
Yep. And we'll eventually come up with something that works
perfectly every time, never allows fraud, vote selling, etc.;
allows you to change your mind; does not force you to vote for
one of two major parties; and can be understood by anyone
willing to take the time to learn it.
Then someone --- let's call them SoftMicro --- will come out
with a voting system that is plagued with security holes,
routinely has votes and entire elections stolen, forces people
to vote for the one major candidate or have his vote effectively
not count; counts votes using some contortionist's dream,
understood by no one (source is not available); and eventually
spits out a random result each time (when it doesn't crash
completely, requiring a new election). People will flock to it
in droves.
</rant>
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