Re: Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by Americans Overseas

[Neal McBurnett <neal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think this quote from the New York Times article at

 http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/21/technology/23CND-INTE.html

gets to the heart of this matter, and of the DRE issues, and of the
broader issues that we are now working on:

 The dual requirements of authentication and anonymity make voting
 very different from most online purchases, they wrote, and failures
 and fraud are covered by Internet merchants and credit card
 companies. "How do we recover if an election is compromised?" they
 wrote.

All the comparisons to e-commerce and ATM machines etc are off the
mark because voting has to be anonymous and vote buying must be
prevented.  Voting has a unique set of requirements, and we must
respond with a mind set that does not fall back on flawed analogies.

Neal McBurnett                 http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:24:52PM -0700, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Tiger, Paul wrote:
> > Report Finds Risks in Internet Voting by Americans Overseas
> Here's the report itself that the article refers to:
>     http://www.servesecurityreport.org/