New York Times coverage of electronic voting

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I can't normally be bothered with lying to the NYT registration form every time I want to read an article, but these seemed worth reading.

Democracy at Risk, Paul Krugman (thanks to vvalkyri)

The Perils of Online Voting, Editorial (thanks to webcowgirl)

That last annoys me a little. It finishes

What is clear, however, is that until the vulnerabilities they identified are eliminated, the risks are too great.

Contrast with conclusion (e) of the report itself:

The vulnerabilities we describe cannot be fixed by design changes or bug fixes to SERVE. These vulnerabilities are fundamental in the architecture of the Internet and of the PC hardware and software that is ubiquitous today. They cannot all be eliminated for the foreseeable future without some unforeseen radical breakthrough. It is quite possible that they will not be eliminated without a wholesale redesign and replacement of much of the hardware and software security systems that are part of, or connected to, today's Internet.

This makes it clear that it's not a question simply of ensuring that "the vulnerabilities they identified are eliminated", but one of abandoning Internet voting altogether for the foreseeable future.

Comments

Actually I mean "voting receipts"

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I just realised my comments would have made more sense if I had used the term "voting receipts" instead of "voting certificates". A voting receipt is some cryptographic ticket you can use to prove what you voted, if you choose to do so, for example MD5 sum of voterID+passphrase+vote.