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Estonia is the world leader in using online voting for its national elections. Its government has done a great deal to improve the security of the system, which is now used by up to 25% of voters. The country's "I-voting system" is touted by proponents of online voting in the U.S. to claim that secure Internet voting is possible.
It isn't. Early in May an international team of independent security experts accredited by the Estonian government reported severe security vulnerabilities in that country's "I-voting system." Elections, the researchers found, "could be stolen, disrupted, or cast into disrepute."
These results have serious implications for the push to internet voting in other countries, particularly in the U.S.
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Hack the Vote: The Perils of the Online Ballot Box
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(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Friday May 30 2014, @09:07AM
Yes because Russians /sarcasm.
Your system sounds a lot like the test system they've attempted where I live not all that far away from you. It's laughable and over here it was the usual suspects that pushed for it (both the two main parties have totalitarian tendencies, one of them has been more or less in power and with a disproportionate amount of influence for the last sixty years and loved whoring itself out to both the CIA and KGB so it's not much of a surprise. The other party is constantly tempting itself into emulating such successful hoarding of power instead of being ethical). The electronic voting system is so naive as to almost become cute and it was already custom made to be fuckable, no wonder fascists and psychopaths all over the world are ecstatic. No, it's not secure and anyone can make the claim and prove it. I can make the claim, Martians can make the claim, Uranusians can make the claim: you have to prove it is secure, not that it is insecure. Read that a few more times, think about what it says, what it means.
Can you really claim the voting system is anonymous? That whoever piggybacks the voter as they sit in front of a computer in some unknown location and cast their vote doesn't know the facts you've presented and doesn't demand being given everything? The voters will get back their physical card after the vote is done, the people holding a gun to your head or sending you a hooker are very considerate and caring people and if you vote right before the tally you'll only be without your stuff for a day or two at most. Isn't that nice :)
Whoops the concept of fair elections flies right out of the window and it's never coming back. Why? Because you didn't love it sufficiently.
Please don't blame everything true on the Russians, yes I hate communism too and you were wronged as a nation but despite all of that and despite most Russians being nice and likable people they actually don't deserve your unintentional praise. Same (the gist of it) goes for the Chinese.
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