I don't think with today's technology we can have a voting system that is fully electronic that can be trusted.
Avi RubinMany of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.
Avi RubinIt's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.
Avi RubinI'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.
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