Re: [apsa_itp] Can committees create great ... whatever's?

["Lee McKnight" <LMcKnigh@xxxxxxx>]

Michael,

Before getting to the real world, may i suggest a  homework
assignment?

1) Google" Diebold california electronic voting systems" and read
articles like:

California voting machine security tests uncover serious
vulnerabilities
California Bans E-Vote Machines
CA Source Code Report: Diebold Voting Machines Can Be Hacked With Virus
by Single Person, Affecting Entire Election", 
By Ryan Paul | Published: July 29, 2007 - 11:35PM CT 
How E-Voting Threatens Democracy

(In sum, e-voting with live people and physical machines is not, um,
let's be polite and say it's not fool-proof...and over the net? Well a
number of computer scientists have been working hard foir years to
prevent online e-voting in real elections, because they don't trust the
technology. And you propose to massively scale it up?) 

OK, to be fair, experimental and real e-voting systenms are in use
around the world, and yeah tradiitional voting has all sorts if (known)
flaws too.

But to just say well the financial system relies on online systems (and
loses billions per year), doesn't reassure me that e-democracy as you
envision is ready for more than, well more homework on your part before
proposing others join in your hypothetical thoight experiment.  Assuming
away the real challenges of e-democracy and e-voting reminds me of the
approach more typically taken taken by economists than that of
poliitical scientists.  

best,

Lee


Prof. Lee W. McKnight
School of Information Studies
Syracuse University
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>>> Michael Allan <mike@xxxxxxxxx> 8/19/2007 5:50 AM >>>
On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 06:42:01PM -0500, Steffen W Schmidt wrote:
> Lets shift the discussion a little bit. Is elitism all so bad.
Idealism
> rocks. Unless we make unfounded assumptions about human behavior as
> especially mob behavior.

I've been too bold with paper ideas. You guys are right,
the next step is to test them against reality.

> In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down

( Ha! We'll see about that. ;)

-- 
Michael Allan

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