For a very comprehensive rundown of all the awful things about electronic voting from someone who has been researching it for 12 years, see the following hour l

For a very comprehensive rundown of all the awful things about electronic voting from someone who has been researching it for 12 years, see the following hour long talk given at google: Electronic and Internet Voting (The Threat of Internet Voting in Public Elections) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GjmRwfkRXY It goes through all the highly nontrivial challenges around holding an election, and discusses the major failings of the technology over the years. (Mostly diebold gear as you might imagine.)