E-voting is Not Safe

from the as-any-online-poll-will-show-you... dept

A new study has looked at the idea of e-voting and decided it's not safe. It's just too easy to compromise. I agree that as it currently stands it probably is unsafe, but I do think there are plenty of advantages to having online voting in political elections. The trick will be figuring out a way to make the technology much much better.

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