Re: Online Voting Article in National Journal

[Paul E Condon <pec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2009-01-13_1044.20, Margit Johansson wrote:
> If you are tempted to agree with those pushing internet voting, google "NIST
> internet voting" to read the recent NIST report that says it isn't secure.
> Margit
> 
The article posted by Margit ends with the sentence:
> 
> "It just doesn't seem right," he said, "in this electronic age, that we're
> relying on snail mail to get a ballot to someone in a remote area of Kenya."

I wonder why advocates of e-mail voting expect e-mail to be more available
than snail-mail in remote places. I take this as evidence that they tend to
be very unrealistic about the way the world works.

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Paul E Condon           
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