It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

Our country moved to electronic voting in public elections before the technology was ready, ... This center will develop the fundamental science necessary for secure, accessible, trustworthy and transparent voting.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware.

When you add impediments to voting for no reason, it tends to discriminate against the poor and minorities.