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E-voting vs. corporate applications

The idea that client server apps are inherently bad for e-voting machines is pretty accurate. It is true that anything which someone really wants to subvert is a bad candidate for a client server implementation on a machine placed in an insecure location run by volunteers with large numbers of the public wandering through is right on. Extending this analogy to all corporate applications, many of which offer little incentive to subversion, which are run in implicitly more secure locations (even an office is more secure than a polling site) by people who are being paid (and who therefore have an implicit interest in continuing to be paid), and who are a well identified, limited group is more than just a great leap. Client server is not implicitly bad for that reason. If you want to bash client server as a basic architecture then stick to what is relevant. This isn't the place for the Church of the Webification, particularly since going to some other number of tiers would leave the same problems as a client server approach, and all of the approaches which might work to fix a client server implementation of e-voting (e.g., a paper ballot produced and examined by the voter)would also be necessary for any other sort of e-voting implementation, regardless of the software involved. It is the use of a totally software approach which is the problem, not that it is a particular software platform.

Posted by: gardoglee   Posted on: 08/27/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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