{"id":1190,"date":"2006-08-19T01:31:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-19T01:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:51","slug":"direct_electron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"Direct Electronic Voting? Nein, danke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Avi Rubin has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/forbes\/2006\/0904\/040.html?partner=magazine_newsletter&#038;_requestid=3055\" target=\"browser\">a column in Forbes<\/a> this month on e-voting. His suggestion? Let&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You don&#8217;t like hanging chads? Get ready for cheating chips and doctored drives.<br \/>\nI am a computer scientist. I own seven Macintosh computers, one Windows machine and a Palm Treo 700p with a GPS unit, and I chose my car (Infiniti M35x) because it had the most gadgets of any vehicle in its class. My 7-year-old daughter uses e-mail. So why am I advocating the use of 17th-century technology for voting in the 21st century&#8211;as one of my critics puts it?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He then chats briefly about the weaknesses of the current implementations of DRE (Direct Recording) technologies; I&#8217;ll go a step further and suggest that even robust voting devices present some of the systems problems &#8211; the problems in the end-to-end chain of voting process &#8211; don&#8217;t get addressed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on something longer &#8211; but note that no modern American corporation could run financial systems as risky as the voting systems we propose to use for electing our public officials without the directors of the company facing sanctions under Sarbanes-Oxley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes looks at the issues of voting technology&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}