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Thanks for the reply. I'm still not sold. Having been a systems software programmer in another lifetime, I firmly believe in paper ballots! I worked for Sony for awhile, debugging the stuff the programmers accidently did with the code. Sometimes a problem couldn't be tracked through the dumps. Very frustrating. Anyone can take advantage of this.

Think of it this way: when the Soviet Union collapsed, lots of brilliant scientists were out of work...now in the U.S., same thing is happening in tech. How easy would it be to hire the best and brightest and hungriest to do some fancy coding? And if you were the head of the Dixie mafia, just think how easy it would be to make sure that programmer never talks! This could be a terrific novel, doncha think?

Thanks, sorry about posting it twice.

USSR? Is it that bad back in the states now for IT? It'd be ironic if captialism beat commmunism only to die on its own later.

As far as the Dixie mafia hiring someone to hack a digital voting system, he won't be able to break the blinded certificates or the public counting done at the end. He may definately attack people's PCs or try to DNS attack the two administrative points.

I'm with you. We should stick with simple paper ballots and maybe look into what went wrong in the last couple elections. Personally I think we should standardise some things like the ballots at the national level so local corruption can't effect national elections.

There are voices left and right that are worried about these proprietary black-box voting boxes. I won't trust it unless it's open source.