[OT] voting survey

[Levi Pearson]

Jonathan Duncan <jonathan at bluesunhosting.com> writes:
>
> I am lazy.  I want to stay on my couch in my living room with my
> laptop comfortably on my lap.  I want to vote from a web site that I
> can access from anywhere.  That way if I am in Tahiti on election day,
> I can still vote.  That way, if I am in the military, I do not have to
> vote "Absentee".  This is the time of that big Intarweb thing.  Why
> not use it?  Nobody checks my identity when I vote at current polling
> stations.  Voting online could be just as secure or insecure.  Keep
> some polling stations open with a laptop available for people who just
> have not gotten around to buying one of those durnfangled comp u tarz
> and downloading that In Tar Web thing onto it.  Or better yet, just
> tell people to go to the library.  Why purchase more equipment for
> voting.  Most people have the equipment they need already.  Just make
> one fool proof web site, probably cost the same amount of money as all
> those polling machines and manning the polling stations.

That violates the principle I just outlined.  Someone could come to
your house and watch you vote to ensure you vote the way you say you
will.

It's also incredibly prone to security problems.  Developing a secure
standalone voting machine is already too hard; developing a voting
machine hooked into the internet is security suicide.

                --Levi