[OT] voting survey

[Corey Edwards]

On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 11:30 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote:
> 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.

All voting in Oregon is done by mail-in ballot. It's extremely cost
efficient and thus far issues of voter fraud, coercion, etc. haven't
been seen. I loved mail-in voting. For now I've resorted to registering
as an absentee but it's a pain because I have to sign up every year.

> 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.

I'm not sure if the successes with mail-in ballots would necessarily
translation to Internet voting. The barrier to abuse is certainly lower
with the latter. While I don't think it would be *impossible* to do it
right, I am sure that it would be non-trivial and the current crop of
voting device companies would surely find a way to screw it up.

Corey