Wednesday, October 08, 2008
HRM e-voting success...fully eliminates the secret ballot
There were e-voters in more than 30 countries, with the oldest born in 1913, they said.
"We had people vote from Sri Lanka, from Korea, from over 50 Canadian cities and 25 American states," said Cathy Mellett, e-voting project manager for the Halifax Regional Municipality.
10% of HRM voters cast e-ballots (via Carol) and 28,709 cast municipal e-votes (via sparkcbc Twitter)
Hmm, so let's see. You assign a PIN number to each citizen, and mail the PIN to their address, and the verification info is their birth year, AND you're tracking their voting location, which can only be done by tracking their IP address, which semi-uniquely identifies their computer.
So you know who they are multiple times over, through the combination of PIN, birth year, mailing address, and IP address.
So number one, goodbye secret ballot.
Are you seriously going to take it on trust that they won't be tempted to check to find out who voted for whom? That no one will ever be tempted to check this?
Number two, in a world full of good people and lots and lots of bad people, from Nigerian scammers to Russian mafia, letting people vote in a Halifax election from any computer anywhere in the world is a feature? Are you kidding me?
Labels: halifax, hrm, internet voting
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