Eugene Spafford è stato intervistato da Infoworld. Cito un’affermazione che condivido particolarmente:
There’s something that I think has been overlooked by a lot of people who work in this realm. The average voter does not have the technological sophistication to have confidence that the mechanism preserves their anonymity and their vote. Some of the methods that involve cryptography, for instance, while scientifically very sound, would be used by people who don’t understand the mathematics behind it and are mistrustful of the idea that they would have to take someone’s word that it works. The method of having a paper record is a technology people can immediately grasp and understand. That’s really important. We want not only to protect the vote, but we want people to feel comfortable that their vote matters. Anything that we do to make the system more complex or difficult to understand disenfranchises some people.
