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Dutch Ban Voting Computers

The link is to a story whereby the Dutch Government have concluded that having computer voting undermines the secret ballot.

I wish our government would recognise this before they go down that route. Bits of paper may be archaic, but they provide a transparency of audit trail that is important for democracy.

Comments

Hywel said…
Surely no-one was stupid enough to set up wireless e-voting terminals. It would seem not!

Not matter how good your encryption they will surely always be more vulnerable than hard-wired

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