The US could learn a thing or two from India’s all-electronic national elections, which concluded last week. In the world’s largest democracy, 650 million people had the chance to cast their votes on nearly a million e-voting machines. In contrast, only 20 per cent of the ballots to be cast in this year’s US presidential elections will be electronic.
Controversy continues to dog the US’s sophisticated e-voting machines. The complexity of the software makes it hard to spot bugs or any attempted fraud (New Scientist, 14 February, p 6).
However, a mere glance at the short, simple software in…
