Online voting poll Are you in favour Yes or No?

[GostHacked]

Absolutely untrue.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10311336-245.html

The more connected all systems become, the easier it is for foul play to take place. And when it does, it can have huge impacts like millions of credit card number stolen. So online voting can be exposed to the same things. Even secure login sites can be hijacked.

Login scams happen all the time. There was an issue with vALVE's Steam game client in the last week. Users got directed to a login site which was not an official vALVE website. Many accounts were hijacked in this nature. It's not the first time this kind of thing happens to vALVE. But they are one game developer/distributor that does not screw around with these hackers, they hunt them down and take em out. They take cheating and hacking very seriously. The downside is if you are caught cheating ect, you get VAC banned, meaning your account is disabled, and you now have just lost access to all the games you bought through Steam.

The prizes are bigger now, and the risks seem to be worth it to those who do. Where there is a will there is a way. The voting machines have little to no paper trail for verification. That in of itself should prevent anyone from using them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/us/compu...xperts-say.html This is from the 2003 election.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/ju...onic_11-02.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3077251/

[benny]

The more connected all systems become, the easier it is for foul play to take place. And when it does, it can have huge impacts like millions of credit card number stolen. So online voting can be exposed to the same things. Even secure login sites can be hijacked.

Login scams happen all the time. There was an issue with vALVE's Steam game client in the last week. Users got directed to a login site which was not an official vALVE website. Many accounts were hijacked in this nature. It's not the first time this kind of thing happens to vALVE. But they are one game developer/distributor that does not screw around with these hackers, they hunt them down and take em out. They take cheating and hacking very seriously. The downside is if you are caught cheating ect, you get VAC banned, meaning your account is disabled, and you now have just lost access to all the games you bought through Steam.

The prizes are bigger now, and the risks seem to be worth it to those who do. Where there is a will there is a way. The voting machines have little to no paper trail for verification. That in of itself should prevent anyone from using them.

Precisely because politics should benefit first, for national security reason, of all new technological advances, such horror stories in the commercial field should stimulate, not discourage, the project of on-line voting.