The question at the beginning of the chapter was, " Should we start online voting?" Although counting votes would no longer be an issue, submission of votes would be very easy, and results would be almost instantaneous; voting online would be a very bad idea. Worms, viruses, and Trojan horses are ways the voting system could be easily tampered with. Trojan horses, to me, is the scariest. Anonymous people could hack into computer systems from anywhere in the world (like in Jeffery Deaver's The Blue Nowhere).
Defense mechanisms are being put into place, but as of now they can be bi passed by serious hackers. The most we can do now is to install antivirus programs, have a firewall, and not open attachments from unknown people.
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Online voting would be one of the biggest mistakes our country could ever make. There are too many people out there that could work around the system and fix an election.
After the hanging chads in the Gore-Bush race for president our system needed some overhauling. I think most of the bugs were worked out but online voting is not the answer.
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