Comments on: Pia Pia Pia Waugh, Pia Waugh, Pia Waugh http://pipka.org/blog/2006/09/29/pia-pia-pia-waugh-pia-waugh-pia-waugh/ ... taking over the world like we always do! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: zcat http://pipka.org/blog/2006/09/29/pia-pia-pia-waugh-pia-waugh-pia-waugh/#comment-91 zcat Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:16:51 +0000 http://pipka.org/blog/2006/09/29/pia-pia-pia-waugh-pia-waugh-pia-waugh/#comment-91 Voting's a terrible example, there are too many ways to tamper with an all-electronic vote even if the software is OSS. What electronic voting really needs is a voter-verified paper trail and random recounts, end-to-end accountability. Whatever happens 'inside the box' no longer matters, as long as we can verify that the end result is correct. There are better examples; Brazil, Mass., Governments having control over their own data. Developing countries being able to adapt the software locally. BTW; Cairo [http://wlug.org.nz/CairoKingsbury] says hi, she's just been elected "Official WLUG Penguin" at our recent AGM. Voting’s a terrible example, there are too many ways to tamper with an all-electronic vote even if the software is OSS. What electronic voting really needs is a voter-verified paper trail and random recounts, end-to-end accountability. Whatever happens ‘inside the box’ no longer matters, as long as we can verify that the end result is correct.

There are better examples; Brazil, Mass., Governments having control over their own data. Developing countries being able to adapt the software locally.

BTW; Cairo [http://wlug.org.nz/CairoKingsbury] says hi, she’s just been elected “Official WLUG Penguin” at our recent AGM.

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