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German Constitutional Court agrees with you, having ruled e-voting unconstitutional in 2009: > While in a conventional election with ballot papers, manipulatio

by ash 11y ago

German Constitutional Court agrees with you, having ruled e-voting unconstitutional in 2009: > While in a conventional election with ballot papers, manipulations or acts of electoral fraud are … only possible with considerable effort and with a very high risk of detection, which has a preventive effect, programming errors in the software or deliberate electoral fraud committed by manipulating the software of electronic voting machines can be recognised only with difficulty. … The voters themselves must be able to understand without detailed knowledge of computer technology whether their votes cast are recorded in an unadulterated manner as the basis of vote counting, or at any rate as the basis of a later recount. http://electiondefensealliance.org/germany_rules_evoting_unconstitutional http://electiondefensealliance.org/germany_rules_evoting_unc... http://history.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.5/no-evoting-germany http://history.edri.org/edri-gram/number7.5/no-evoting-germa...

mcv 11y ago
I'm not sure if they've been ruled constitutional in Netherland, but in 2009 the government decided not to use them anymore after pressure from an organization called "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We don't trust voting computers"), lead by hacker and pioneering ISP founder Rop Gonggrijp. I'm actually still kind of impressed that a protest from the hacker community was so successful in convincing the government.
- slasaus 11y ago
  It was successful because they were able to detect if someone voted CDA (ChristenDemocratisch Appèl) because the "è" sent out a different radio wave that was detectable from a distance and broke voting secrecy. The main point, that electronics are orders of magnitude harder to secure because they are inherently more complex and less transparent than simple solutions like ballot boxes and voting on paper, is still not well understood in society and even not in the hacker community as you can read in most of the comments here.

by ash 11y ago

mcv 11y ago

I'm not sure if they've been ruled constitutional in Netherland, but in 2009 the government decided not to use them anymore after pressure from an organization called "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" ("We don't trust voting computers"), lead by hacker and pioneering ISP founder Rop Gonggrijp. I'm actually still kind of impressed that a protest from the hacker community was so successful in convincing the government.

slasaus 11y ago
It was successful because they were able to detect if someone voted CDA (ChristenDemocratisch Appèl) because the "è" sent out a different radio wave that was detectable from a distance and broke voting secrecy. The main point, that electronics are orders of magnitude harder to secure because they are inherently more complex and less transparent than simple solutions like ballot boxes and voting on paper, is still not well understood in society and even not in the hacker community as you can read in most of the comments here.