Hmmmm...electronic voting is a tricky subject. There are many problems with it, maybe even more so than paper voting. A sample of the potential problems:

• Needs to be encrypted VERY heavily.
• Corruption can still occur (someone can always alter a DB after the vote to conform to their personal ideology).
• Verification of geographical location.
• Verification of identity.
• Making sure it is "one man, one vote". If this is difficult with just-for-fun polls like the one at the Monastery Gates, imagine how difficult (and important) it would be to implement a proper checking scheme in real elections.

There would be all these problems plus the fact that someone could still screw things up at almost any point in the system. A liberal sysadmin could write a script to discard all Republican votes on the election server (or vice versa, but I don't know any Republican sysadmins).

I love the idea of a electronic voting system, but it must be looked into with great caution before implemented (if it is at all).

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