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Revised and Updated July 26, 2016 Those who believe that “voting online is the future” or that it is “possible given current technology” to create a secure online voting system are dangerously mistaken.[1] According to computer experts, Internet voting is vulnerable to cyber-attack and fraud—vulnerabilities inherent in current hardware and software, as well as the basic manner in which the Internet is organized. It is unlikely that these vulnerabilities will be eliminated at any time in the near future.

Wed Dec 19 2001 at 3:54:55 "In the spring of 1967, a new employee of the Norwegian Computing Center in a very shocked voice told the switchboard operator: 'Two men are fighting violently in front of the blackboard in the upstairs corridor. What shall we do?' The operator came out of the office, listened for a few seconds and then said: 'Relax, it's only Dahl and Nygaard discussing SIMULA." The SIMULA programming language was created by Kristen Nygaard and Ole-Johan Dahl. The idea for the language began in 1961, when Nygraad had an idea for a simulation language. That is, SIMULA was created to...