[OT electronic voting"] - was Re: [Fsfe-uk] Membership

[Richard Smedley]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:24, Ramanan Selvaratnam wrote:
[snip]
> If we can hone the security with the best trust metics available , who 
> knows we will be runnig the next general elections too ;-)
> (Seriously electronic voting is coming and it is a seperate plus point 
> for free software in government)

``A secure Internet voting system is theoretically
possible, but it would be the first secure networked
application ever created in the history of computers''
- Bruce Schneier

There is a state in the USA that uses electronic
voting, and the man who supplied the equipment also 
won his place in the senate on something like 86
per cent of the vote. It was an interesting coincidence.

 - Richard

[yes, Free Software would obviously be better than
anything else here, but the practical problems are
almost insurmountable]

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