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Story: Digital rights group slams e-voting

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Pros and cons

I've heard of similar systems.

Advantages:
1. You have a real paper trail.
2. The ballots are counted electronically, and the papers only need to be stored for the statutory time - not counted unless there's a dispute.

Disadvantages:
1. The electronic system is still a black box, and it will keep records of the votes that could be reverse-engineered in a matter of moments instead of the work that it takes to "audit" a paper-only ballot. Thus the "secrecy", such as it is, of the vote is more vulnerable to being undone.
2. There's no way of knowing that the votes have been destroyed after a period of time - with the paper ballots you only have one, physical, copy and you can see when it is burned. With an electronic record any number of copies, official or unofficial, could exist. It's Pandora's Box.
3. Setting up (and supporting) all that electronics each time there's a vote. The way we do it now just requires the plywood screens and a few school desks.

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