The US mis-election - an oportunity for e-voting..

[Robert Guerra]

Declan:

I completely agree with you that internet voting isn't quite ready fom 
prime-time just yet. But given the current snafu I highly suspect that 
there will be a lot of interest in the field.

Certainly, I hope one of the few things the new congress will be able to do 
is set-up a commission to propose new voting standards. Hopefully they will 
pick a standard that doesn't give rise to problems 30-40 years in the 
future...


personally, if I had a say I'd say they should adopt the same system Canada 
uses. They use a 100 year old system, had few if any recounts, and managed 
to count all thier manual ballots in less than 72 hours.



--On Sunday, December 10, 2000 11:59 AM -0500 Declan McCullagh 
<declan at well.com> wrote:

> Robert,
> With respect, you're joking, right?
>
> The current system is flawed, true, but an Internet voting system
> would likely suffer from far more serious security, authentication,
> and fraud problems. This is a recurring topic of discussion in
> cryptographic and computer-risks circles. Do some web searches.
>
> -Declan
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:23:17AM -0500, Robert Guerra wrote:
>> Hey if there's a good side of the US mis-election this year.. it is that
>> finally there will be an attempt to improve and modernize the process.
>>
>> One of the technologies to improve the voting process is secure
>> e-voting..Can anyone enlighten me as to who is working in the field..
>> Looks  like it will be the only tech stocks that will do well in 2001 !
>>
>> regards
>>
>> robert
>>