In his aug. 23 commentary in this space, "E-voting: it's security, stupid," Ben Rothke proved he is out of touch with reality when he compared elections with Internet commerce and wrote of "intrinsic" security flaws in electronic voting technology. E-commerce and electronic tax filing are conducted over the Internet. Electronic voting is not. When you send money or information to your bank or your government online, it is technically vulnerable to millions of users around the world, even though security specialists have done a pretty good job of protecting against fraud and identity theft.
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