with this, my bladder's empty

[Rich Littleton]

David,

SCN's Stefani Banerian already uses electronic voting.  Let's give it a
test, at least.  Would you be willing to be on a list to do a couple of
"dummy" elections?

Anyone who would be willing to be a "trial voter" for a test run (not a
real vote) can send his/her name to the board.  While there is no plan to
do a sample election, at least the board can simply list the willing
members' addresses and hold the list as this matter evolves.

Rich

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On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, David Barts wrote:

> Rich Littleton writes:
> 
> > To all readers: (from Rich)
> > Kurt sent this extended reply to my requesting clarification of his
> > statement that e-voting is risky.  My understanding of Kurt's message is:
> > 1.	E-voting software is not used much;
> > 2.	This software might have glitches in it; and
> > 3.	It would take heavy use/testing to be sure it was safe;
> 
> He also says (to me at least), perhaps most important of all, that:
> 
> 4.   Unlike traditional paper voting systems, the technology behind
>      E-voting systems is not understandable by the majority of the
>      voting public.  This removes a key component of any voting system:
>      public oversight, and a resulting trust that is based on observable
>      and comprehensible facts, not blind faith in a technology and
>      its priesthood.
> 
> I.e., even if *all* technological barriers to E-voting systems are solved,
> there are still social, psychological, and political barriers that make
> it unlikely that E-voting will *ever* be as appropriate as traditional
> voting systems.
> 
> -- 
>        David W. Barts (n5jrn at ricochet.net) / http://www.scn.org/~davidb
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