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Comments on: E-voting as secure as an insecure thing

Inaccurate 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 13:03 GMT

Warwick and Stratford District Councils aren't piloting internet voting, they're using machines to count ballot papers.

e-voting != online voting 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 13:58 GMT

It's quite scary that the ``e-voting co-ordinator" doesn't know what e-voting is. E-voting or electronic voting does not mean online voting, it most certainly includes online voting but it is not limited to. Thus e-voting is not necessarily ``done at home" as John Kitkat puts it.

Ooooh 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 18:01 GMT

As this is a test, does that mean we're free to all have a go at breaking it?

I give it about 3 minutes to live.

Kitkat? 

Posted Wednesday 2nd May 2007 20:49 GMT

Jason Kitkat? Is that really his name?

RE: Kitkat? 

Posted Thursday 3rd May 2007 08:59 GMT

"Jason Kitkat? Is that really his name?"

He's had to put up with that all his life. Give the guy a Break.

(... commencing coat retrieval ...)

Much easier 

Posted Thursday 3rd May 2007 11:03 GMT

I live in Rushmoor, and I've just 'iVoted' :-) Much easier than going down to the polling station, and probably wouldn't have bothered without iVote. The most difficult part was remembering the 10 character username sent back to the council to register for iVote. Don't think it would be easy to 'nick' someones vote as you need the username, DoB and the 10 digit 'Voter ID Number' from the polling card. Thumbs up from me.

How secure are traditional channels? 

Posted Thursday 3rd May 2007 14:40 GMT

..."at least as secure as traditional channels" is not saying much.

Today I walked into a Polling Station without a polling card (having mislaid mine), gave an address and a name and was given ballot papers, which I duly used to vote in the elections.

No checks whatsoever were made of my identity.

In the event, it was my own name and address, but it could just as easily have been somebody else's.

Follow-up: How secure are traditional channels? 

Posted Tuesday 8th May 2007 08:29 GMT

> Today I walked into a Polling Station without a

> polling card (having mislaid mine)

You don't need a polling card to vote.

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