[clug] e-Voting: What would you want in a smartphone App?

[Neill Cox]

The most compelling argument that Rusty gave against e-voting was
social. If someone votes outside of a polling place, how do you
guarantee that their vote has not been coerced ?

Apart from that there's no way I'd trust an iPhone it's too closed a
platform. I don't think I'd trust MS, Google or Nokia either though.
Guess U'll just have to stick to paper voting ;)

On Saturday, March 20, 2010, steve jenkin <sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> Remember Tridge, Rusty (?) and others produced something a few elections
> back??
> Starting again today, with Smartphone, what different approaches might
> there be?
>
> If the AEC were to publish an iPhone App, what would you want to know:
>
> - in order to trust the download?
> - to know the vote recorded was the vote you wanted to cast?
>
> I'd be happy if the App just printed a ballot sheet that I handed in.
> Perhaps only after I'd picked up a (random) barcode token after
> registration.
>
> What about the people who have other smartphones: Android, Nokia (?)
>
> And the ever present threat of malware, recently come to a smartphone
> near you (if you were to believe the Tabloid TV media).
>
> s
>
> --
> Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
> 0412 786 915 (+61 412 786 915)
> PO Box 48, Kippax ACT 2615, AUSTRALIA
>
> sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au http://members.tip.net.au/~sjenkin
> --
> linux mailing list
> linux at lists.samba.org
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/linux
>