Analysis of an Electronic Voting System
In more than two centuries no western democracy had any serious trouble arising from using ballot papers (by the way, what’s wrong with them?) and to date most democracies of the world use ballot papers to elect their Parliaments and Governments.
However, hardware and software vendors are pressing for the use of electronic voting and Governments often endorse it.
Most people see electronic voting as a mere technical evolution of ballot paper voting and therefore they are confidently waiting for hardware and software that will make electronic elections as secure as remote banking, for example. They probably think voting is a simple transaction by which we add 1 to the electoral “balance” of our candidate, just the way we add money to someone’s bank balance when we use our credit card. Unfortunately voting is not like banking because votes and financial data differ in the level of the secrecy they require and such intrinsic difference is the very reason why electronic voting is unfit for political elections in democracy
and no technology can change this.
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