Augusto Jun Devegili replied to Tim May:
It won't happen in our lifetimes. It may happen in European nations, but only because the average citizen does what he is told to do more so than American paranoids and individualists will do.
[Augusto] I would like to see this happening after the scientific/academic community approves a secure protocol and its implementation architecture. And I also understand that it will be quite hard to convince the general voter of the security of e-voting.
I think I have to agree with Tim here. That blind-sign-sign-blind-vote protocol might be wonderful but is not going to be accepted by the average voter. Or even the brainiest. And us non-individualistic Brits are so non-paranoid that we still won't accept voting machines or mechanical counting. All done by crosses on the paper, counted by hand, with the candidates in the room watching the counters. Which is the best defence against fraud. Everything is literally out in the open, on big tables, with the candidates there, and paranoid card-player rules - all boxes sealed at the polling station and opened again at the count before witnesses, no-one except the counters & Returning Officer (a sort of election supervisor) to physically touch the ballots, no hands under the table, the counters can't even wear jackets in some places. It works. Ken