Writing Assignment 6/ Diebold

After watching the Princeton video about Diebold, I realized many problems about e-voting that I have never thought of before. In fact, I used to think that after the 2000 presidential election, a form of e-voting would be more efficient and accurate.

Many people, (now including myself) are extremely worried about this method of voting because all of the corruption that can occur. At first I thought that certain politicians would have people go out and corrupt the votes, but the more I read and watched about this issue, I realized that radicals and people who may not want a certain figure in leadership could easily go out and alter the votes. What's even worse, is that there is no way of detecting that the machines were altered with.

If I had to design some kind of security measures in California for these voting machines, I would not allow people to vote behind the white curtains. I would make a person watch the e-voters (maybe face to face to ensure their privacy) to make sure that there was no corruption.