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Story: Digital rights group slams e-voting

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Re: Pros and Cons

> 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.

I would propose that the machines are little more than dumb terminals with built in printers and simply keep the tally, not the actual votes. That is what the paper is for.

> 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.

Not in this case .. see 1) :)

> 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.

I'll give you that one in spades :)

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