It's interesting to see what is happening now in the US with Obama and Clinton. However, a dangerous trend has emerged. More and more elections are conducted using electronic means. This is a dangerous development. I studied Computer Science, and I know that computers and voting do not mix. Votes should be put down in paper. Changing a few bytes in a computer memory is a lot easier than forging thousands of ballots. What has happened now in New Hampshire is an outrage. If democracy is to be saved, we need to do away with electronic elections. Diebold voting machines: Ron Paul got 0 votes. Complaints by people who actually voted Ron Paul were followed by a "correction". Ron Paul did get votes after all. Stop e-voting now, I say.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Computers kill democracy
It's interesting to see what is happening now in the US with Obama and Clinton. However, a dangerous trend has emerged. More and more elections are conducted using electronic means. This is a dangerous development. I studied Computer Science, and I know that computers and voting do not mix. Votes should be put down in paper. Changing a few bytes in a computer memory is a lot easier than forging thousands of ballots. What has happened now in New Hampshire is an outrage. If democracy is to be saved, we need to do away with electronic elections. Diebold voting machines: Ron Paul got 0 votes. Complaints by people who actually voted Ron Paul were followed by a "correction". Ron Paul did get votes after all. Stop e-voting now, I say.
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Computers don't kill democracy. People kill democracy. (With apologies to the NRA :-)
It gets even weirder: look up Gerrymandering.
Oh, and congratulations on siding with the winning camp in the HD format wars :-)
Hoi Jacco. Bedankt voor je kerst kaartje! Heh heh... grappige NRA quote. De format-war.... tja, op zich een goede zaak dat Microsoft zijn zin niet krijgt. Hoe minder Microsoft patenten in de HiDef specs, hoe beter.
Apropos Ron Paul... :-)
Zelfs het tellen van gewone stembiljetten is voor amerikanen al te moeilijk.
Iedere keer als de software voor de stemcomputers moet worden aangepast (ook voor simpele zaken als het aanpassen van de kandidaten lijsten) ligt het gevaar van manipulatie op de loer.
Ik dacht dat NEDAP zelfs stemcomputers aan de USA heeft geleverd.
Interessante links:
http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/
http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~knop/stemmachines/
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