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post Oct 25 2006, 08:59 PM
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http://www.electionsquebec.qc.ca/en/nouvel...152&typeN=2
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/25/1324237.shtml
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Trespass
post Oct 25 2006, 10:21 PM
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Um, so i would be uneducated to think that the system can be perfected and thus much more efficient than paper?

Or would it just be uneductated to think RIGHT NOW they aren't as safe as paper ballots? (i agree with the paper being more secure right now... save those damn hanging chads and confusingly voting for buchanen)
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post Oct 25 2006, 10:24 PM
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QUOTE (Trespass @ Oct 25 2006, 11:21 PM) *
Um, so i would be uneducated to think that the system can be perfected and thus much more efficient than paper?

Or would it just be uneductated to think RIGHT NOW they aren't as safe as paper ballots?


Yes, you would be uneducated to think the system can be perfected. Nothing is perfect, especially in the software world. Compare this to to copy protection... people will always find a way to break it. New vulnerabilities are discovered every day in all sorts of software products. Sign up for bugtrak, securityfocus, or CERT.

Anyone who thinks software can be perfected is a complete idiot. Anyone with any basic software engineering experience or who has ever taken a softare engineering class knows this. They tell you this on the first day in software engineering 101.
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