sorry to hear that you guys couldn't create a hacking-proof system... here in brazil we use electronic voting since 1996, and since 2000 we've electronic voting all over country (5.569 cities, more than 100 million voters) and we haven't found any problems of hacking so far.
if you're looking for know-how, our system was 100% developed by federal government without private companies and works just fine!
The solution is not the government doing this. If there's one entity that can be counted for consistently high levels of incompetence, it's the government. And it has problems with malice as much as any corporation. Do you want whichever party is in charge at the moment producing it's own black-box voting machines for the next election? How long do you think they'll remain in power? I'm betting it'll be a _long_ time -- unless, I suppose, their incompetence outweighs their malice, and the other party pwns all the voting machines. If you think special-interests dominate the private sector, but the government is composed of upstanding ethical heroes, I'll _try_ to explain it: Corporate goal: money Political goal: power Seeking money sometimes yields power grabs as the most effective path (keep people in office who give you tax breaks, or whatever), but sometimes ROI is better other ways. Seeking power ALWAYS means power grabs. If they can, they will. Who do you think wants to hijack your vote worse?
The solution might be open-source. If the source code to the voting machine (and I mean to _everything_ on it, firmware, OS, DB and front-end, as well as the build toolchain, so that anyone can reproduce the actual binary image on the machine, and verify it) was available, then they would have to hide things very well indeed to pull any sneaky stuff. But then again, they'd have to make things secure for that to work, else you air all your security flaws to the world.
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sorry to hear that you guys couldn't create a hacking-proof system... here in brazil we use electronic voting since 1996, and since 2000 we've electronic voting all over country (5.569 cities, more than 100 million voters) and we haven't found any problems of hacking so far.
if you're looking for know-how, our system was 100% developed by federal government without private companies and works just fine!
That is the problem here. Special interests, plain and simple, this should not be a private sector machine.
The solution is not the government doing this. If there's one entity that can be counted for consistently high levels of incompetence, it's the government. And it has problems with malice as much as any corporation.
Do you want whichever party is in charge at the moment producing it's own black-box voting machines for the next election? How long do you think they'll remain in power? I'm betting it'll be a _long_ time -- unless, I suppose, their incompetence outweighs their malice, and the other party pwns all the voting machines.
If you think special-interests dominate the private sector, but the government is composed of upstanding ethical heroes, I'll _try_ to explain it:
Corporate goal: money
Political goal: power
Seeking money sometimes yields power grabs as the most effective path (keep people in office who give you tax breaks, or whatever), but sometimes ROI is better other ways.
Seeking power ALWAYS means power grabs. If they can, they will.
Who do you think wants to hijack your vote worse?
The solution might be open-source. If the source code to the voting machine (and I mean to _everything_ on it, firmware, OS, DB and front-end, as well as the build toolchain, so that anyone can reproduce the actual binary image on the machine, and verify it) was available, then they would have to hide things very well indeed to pull any sneaky stuff. But then again, they'd have to make things secure for that to work, else you air all your security flaws to the world.