One problem with Internet voting
"Voting-software worker sues firm, alleging product is defective" from the Seattle P-I (2003-02-28), involves Votehere, a Bellevue, WA company.
A whistle-blowing computer programmer is suing his former employer, alleging the company fired him because he intended to expose major flaws in its electronic voting software to outside auditors.
Daniel B. Spillane, a 38-year-old Seattle resident, claims that Bellevue-based VoteHere sold software with defects so severe that election administrators might accidentally delete the results of entire precincts.
I want to vote electronically and remotely, but the system must be completely open to scrutiny (because it cannot be made foolproof). That's an unlikely software solution for a for-profit company to provide.
I think it will take a public, group software development effort to write the necessary code. And I don't think I'd like it any other way.
This coming from someone who writes closed-source licensed code for a living.