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Via Phil Windley comes a good diatribe against a paper opining that it's only luddites who oppose electronic voting:
The Deseret News would do well to check their facts before they fly off the handle on this one. The fact is that the people most worried are computer scientists --the people least likely to be afraid of computers merely because they're new.
Jay Lepreau of the CS department at the University of Utah and I published an Op-Ed piece on eVoting in the Salt Lake Tribune in 2004. In that piece we noted "The consensus of computer and security experts is overwhelming: In a poll of members of the ACM, the premier organization for computing professionals, over 95 percent of the respondents felt that voting systems should provide a recountable physical record, e.g., paper." In other words, the people most educated in this area are the ones most concerned.
As I've said before, it's not what you don't know that does damage - it's what you think you know that really hurts. That's why we profile applications, and why we get wary of things that leave no paper trail.
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