Electronic voting issue is faith, not knowledge
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011Yesterday was Vikerraadio Reporter hour broadcast, which Arp Müller on e-voting issue. By sending the 4 guests: members of the Riigikogu and Priit Toobal Valdo Beach Family, Steve, and an official academic background Ülle Priit Vinkel. Copy the first listening, you can follow the link:
http://vikerraadio.err.ee/helid?main_id=1647771
So, now that each reader can decide whether to hear it about 55 minutes and formulates its own position, or you can read my comments on.
The first, which seriously disturbs me, is the reform of the cover rocking from hopping from one to another, and reviled, KE raises the issue of lack of votes. I have previously written on the subject of e-voting, election observers in how I went and saw the process of training courses organized for the destruction of up to vote (the day before the election). Later on I've yet to read and reviewed the material repeatedly. I will not detail the argument here, however, provide the Beach family, or anyone else can say that the Estonian e-voting is arranged in such a way as to preclude forgery. I mean this falsification is the possibility of influencing the votes of thousands. Essentially, the old saying that no matter how people vote, as long as certain conditions have been created by the IGC ballot. However, due to the existence of such a possibility, it will also be made. Afterwards we probably can not control. For example, in Finland are under a legal requirement to retain all the voting papers until the next election. In Estonia, however, they are destroyed to a notion of an argument based on the fear of fire. It is argued that one can never be rid of encryption, and find out who voted for whom. This is possible only if a voter identification number, and his choice of voting is complete. If, however, to give voters a randomly generated code, you can not later come back to the voters at the same time, however, be able to read the second time, thousands of voices that echo was a new entrant.
Another issue is the unanswered question for me, that's why we do it at all. Steve talks about sending people to travel and live away from home and need an e-election. All right so why do not we let you choose any of the stations and the count is still only in the larger centers of opportunity to vote for? Having read about this project and the launch of contemporaneous documents, it actually had three objectives: the positive attention of the country (Estonia Nokia), increase voter turnout (virtual polling young people) and the decrease in the money needed for elections. In fact, none of these goals are not achieved. At least not for the cost thereof.
My current active status of e-voting entirely by a political decision, it does not have any other (economic, public) reasons. Recall that as many votes to the party never shared the ID card readers, because they had been earlier in one of the proponents of the project ülikalli card. Now we are in a state where we have ülikallis ID cards and the applications that you are looking for. It must be conceded, however, that in recent years has also been associated with the bank after the interaction.





