Saving Democracy from Technology
Joe Kiniry gave his inaugural
lecture at the Technical University of Denmark on Friday, 1 February
2013. The title of his talk was Saving Democracy from
Technology.
The talk was streamed
live over the internet and recorded via Adobe Connect.
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Abstract:
For the past several decades governments around the world
have been endangering their own democracies though the
reckless use of computers in elections, or what is
colloquially known as e-voting. Politicians, bureaucrats, and
the general public have high expectations for e-voting.
Unfortunately, voluminous evidence shows that e-voting makes
elections more expensive, does not increase voter turnout, and
removes public control from democracies. Consequently,
virtually the entire computer science community is against the
introduction of computers in elections. All hope is not lost
though. Computer science does have a role in elections. We
can improve the correctness and accuracy of elections---not by
putting computers in voting booths, but in other, more subtle
and surprising, ways.
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Photos from the Event