Story: Digital rights group slams e-voting

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Coersion vs. Corruption

I have a postal vote set up permanently now, as I am never sure when I am going to be out of the county for a few days. I did this after missing a couple of ballots in a row at the last minute.

I think we need to finger print and iris scan every man woman and child in the country and come ballot day, line them all up on pain of 5 years in clink, take their scans, make them vote and then lock them up for the rest of the day just to make sure !!

Sorry, lowest form of wit and all that, but really just illustrating the point that it is very difficult to get things 100% secure.

I am of the opinion that it is far more important to make it as easy as is practical and secure for everyone to vote. However, I also think it is far more important to make voting relevant to public again. As it is, they believe that it really doesn't matter if they vote or not as they all just a bunch of lying so-and-sos who are most likely going to do the exact opposite of what they said .. but can't even be relied on to do that. When you have so many votes laying idle, you have far more of a chance of getting away un-noticed, you need to do much less rigging to make it count and you have far more slack to work in.

I believe appathy and corruption are far more of a threat than coersion.

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