Well, if you believe you can write robust C programs, you shouldn't use Perl programs. After all, a Perl program can only be stable if perl is stable. And perl is written in C.

But program and hardware stability isn't the biggest problem with electronic voting. Nor are any attacks from the outside. The biggest problem lies on the inside - the supplier of the voting machines (hardware and software). And don't think that making the software available gives you any security at all. Sidestepping the fact that 99% of the voting population won't have the skills to understand the program, do don't have the garantee that the program you have been given is the actual program that's running the voting machines - or the tally machines. There's no way to know that if you press the button for candidate A your vote is actually counted for candidate A, and only once.

I strongly suggest anyone who wants to participate in this thread first reads the past 5+ years of comp.risks.

In reply to Re: Larry Wall for President! (or at least voting systems in Perl...) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Larry Wall for President! (or at least voting systems in Perl...) by radiantmatrix

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