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granted, any election can be fixed, but cant we at least keep it a BIT difficult for criminals to pull it off? just a wee little bit perhaps?

wouldn't there be a way to create a parallel network that only the voting machines ran on?

like, something on its "own internet". I know next to nothing about networking, but if the networks are even possibly accessable from outside, e-voting is a retarted idea.

Originally posted by inimalist
wouldn't there be a way to create a parallel network that only the voting machines ran on?

like, something on its "own internet". I know next to nothing about networking, but if the networks are even possibly accessable from outside, e-voting is a retarted idea. Yes.

A closed limited network is possible. Just make no connections to the outside world, store the voting information on a local machine and keep the national database serperate as well. Then ship the local machines with the data to the national database where the votes would be tallyed.

It'd slow the process down a little, but it'd give an extra security measure against outside tampering.