Re: All Internet voting is insecure: report

[joanna bujes <jbujes@xxxxxxxxx>]

ravi wrote:

i do think online voting WILL encourage "democracy" AND third-party

> candidates. i think it might also have negative effects: wasn't there a
> recent finding that more right-wing conservative types are wired than
> poor or left-leaning folks? online voting would thus make it even easier
> to mobilize and bring out the right-wing vote. but the solution (imho,
> in this case) is not to avoid the technology, but to find out ways to
> leverage it to our advantage.
In my neck of the woods, public schools become voting booths at election
time. All public schools in Calif have computers -- so I don't see that
computerizing the voting process would necessarily be a negative for the
left. So it all comes back to the design, the overseers, and the paper
trail.

Joanna