Beware of public officials and news articles spouting the company line. The election commission (and reporters) leap off the democracy boat altogether with this statement:
"The technology side, it works."
My self-cleaning oven works too, but it's not a democracy. For democratic elections to work, you need public controls, you can't count votes in secret, and you need participation. And on these three measures, the Internet-or-telephone voting system fails.
Mainstream news article about Hawaii's pretend-democracy Internet voting system:
The Associated Press - May 27, 2009, by Herbert A. Sample
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i9NwLamF2ZyJwao1WNYbAoKEO2TAD98EV8N80 Low turnout mars Hawaii's digital vote
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