Ironically, I just came in here to post about this. There was a related article on Slashdot yesterday:
link to full article:
http://www.computerworld.com/securit...,95094,00.html
abstract:
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The Ponemon Institute surveyed 2,933 members of the general public and then 100 DEFCON and Black Hat attendees to get their views on electronic voting. 'The degree of difference was startling,' said director Larry Ponemon. It was the biggest split between 'experts and the public he'd ever found. For example, 83% of the experts said e-voting is less or much less secure against election tampering than paper ballots, compared with just 19% of the general public.
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An interesting graph:
It scares me how much the general public trusts technology and how little they understand about how consistently terrible government implementations of technology can be. I truly worry about the trend towards e-voting the way in which it's being done.