Sobre o voto electrónico discutido no ABRUPTO, apenas duas notas:
- a Estónia não é o primeiro país a votar pela Internet a uma escala nacional. O Brasil ou os Estados Unidos já o fizeram, se bem me lembro;
- sobre a fiabilidade dos sistemas, nearly all electronic voting machines in use today remain black boxes without external methods of verifying that the results have not been altered or sabotaged. [...]
In principle, there should be an easy solution: Require that e-voting machines include what's known as a voter-verifiable paper trail. That would permit a voter to review a physical printout with his or her selections--perhaps under glass so the receipt can't be removed--which would also provide a way to perform a manual recount, if necessary.
[mais info recente em "Threats to Voting Systems"]
