I worked out a new voting system that,
combining the good points of paper voting with those of computing,
guarantees quick, honest and verifiable results.
Please read details at
www.ClearVoting.com
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News
2002-10-25
GNU.FREE Project gives up
Bad news for people waiting for an Open Source free and secure electronic vote!
The foundator of the GNU.FREE Project has resigned.
Furthermore he has passed to the opposite front: now he is against any
electronic vote and this is
his new web site
The full news is as follows:
25-10-2002 FREE project policy change...
From my experience of designing and developing GNU.FREE over the past three
years it has become clear that creating an Internet Voting system sufficiently
secure, reliable and anonymous is extremely difficult, if not impossible.
As Bruce Schneier points out "a secure Internet voting system is theoretically
possible, but it would be the first secure networked application ever created
in the history of computers."
I've spent much of my limited time and energy trying to persuade people
(and the UK government in particular) that a Free Software voting system
is the only realistic way a trustworthy voting system could be created.
But they are culturally set in their ways and always need to deal with companies,
no matter how fragile their security actually is. Governments don't even
have the skills to assess the reliability of the people let alone the technologies
these companies sell.
However the more I have coded, researched, discussed and read the more I've
realised that rather than encourage, in a way, the use of electronic voting
techniques (even if I only advocate the use of Free Software) I'm much better
off focussing on the dangers all such technologies present to processes
such as voting. The US have a bold voice on this issue in Rebecca Mercuri.
The UK has no voice on these issues and certainly the world as a whole needs
more educated (if I may say so) voices on the use of technology in democratic
processes.
Thus I have halted development of GNU.FREE but it remains online and I still
support the concept of Free Software in e-government. If organisations want
to use GNU.FREE I'm happy to advise on the issues but I'll be focussing
elsewhere because, as Mr.Schneier points out, "building a secure Internet-based
voting system is a very hard problem, harder than all the other computer
security problems we've attempted and failed at. I believe that the risks
to democacy are too great to attempt it." And this guy eats crypto for breakfast.
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