Electronic voting

During election times my wife and I tend to debate about the presidential candidates and their respective issues, however this year our main topic of discussion has been focused towards electronic voting and our dislike of it. Some of the reasons why we strongly oppose it are because there is no way of insuring its accuracy, it is very easy to commit fraud, and there is a lack of confidentiality. The most important issue during …

…process. The association between recorded votes and the identity of the voter must be completely unknown within the voting systems, and these are almost impossible in electronic voting. While there is certainly room for improvement in the voting system, electronic voting to me is not the answer. I believe that election reform is an issue that deserves close attention, but we must also be careful against changes that inadvertently create even worse of a problem.