> I'd go for a either a standard secure electronic vote or an optically read fill-the-bubble ballot.


I have always thought the idea of being able to vote from one's computer is a very bad one, for one reason: it is simply way too dangerous.

Even the securest encryptions are hackable. Look at the contest that was in "The Code Book", for example. Its final code was in RSA, the securest of all known encryption methods, yet a team of four or five determined solvers cracked it in just over a year's time.

In most cases, it's obviously not worth the time and effort expended to hack something in RSA, even for something like credit card information. But for a presidential election...?

One truly determined group of people could possibly hack even the securest of codes and influence the election in any number of ways -- changing votes, throwing out votes, whatever.

Until there is a truly unbreakable encryption method -- and I doubt such a thing will ever exist -- I will be completely opposed to electronic voting due to the security issues.

-- Trip