10-31-2014, 10:07 AM
(10-30-2014, 10:08 PM)ookpik Wrote:(10-30-2014, 10:51 AM)plam Wrote: Technology is notoriously insecure. Although, or maybe because, I am a computer scientist, I don't trust computers with our fundamental right to vote. It is too easy to steal elections with technology.
Actually I trust computers. It's the people who program and operate them that I don't trust
Not very helpful. Computers always operate in a context where they are programmed by people.
(10-30-2014, 10:08 PM)ookpik Wrote:Quote:Systems where votes are recorded on paper are most secure.
There are ways to game paper ballot systems too.
Never "misunderestimate"(*) the power of humans to find ways to defeat systems, whether paper, mechanical or electronic.
(*) A so-called Bushism coined by a president who owed his election to a failure in ballot systems. Just ask Al Gore.
Of course it is possible to steal an election. But that's also not a very useful comment. It is much easier to steal an election and leave no evidence using technology than it is with well-established paper voting systems.