Graham Coles

UK

Software Engineer

Cut fraud with e-voting? Stop kidding people!

Little bit of a contradiction there. I trust that rather than just publishing pictures of a polling booth someone will dig a little deeper and expose the systems behind it.

To accept electronic voting without any consideration of how the vote is supposed to be registered just shows how gullible people are. This could have been a spoof tv idea for all anyone knows.

Who is to say the votes aren’t being changed between the booth and the count? How secure are the systems being used? Are they patched? Are they running windows, possibly with loads of spyware present altering the votes?

I know how the procedure for voting by a proper legitimate ballot because it's open and simple; how many people who used these booths even have the semblance of a clue as to how their votes are supposedly being recorded. Have Rushmoor council published the software used for security review or are they keeping it secret?

e-Voting is far more likely to be fraudulent than the ballot box if for no other reason that nobody can see it working. Any system kept that secret can do anything it wants without anyone knowing about it. Whatever happened to the promise of 'Open Government'.