My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

In any election, it's important that the public perceives that the election is held fairly.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

I've been saying all along that my biggest fear is that someone would program a machine to give a wrong answer. If that were to happen, the machine would still work fine - we just wouldn't know it.