Challenge 3

This being an election year and since this is a tech challenge I decided to look for articles on VOI (voting over the Internet).

The Good – http://people.howstuffworks.com/e-voting4.htm

The article is very thorough. It remains objective by discussing both the advances in the field along with potential problems. The article contained several links for the researcher to find more viable information. The site was started by a college professor and is a subsidiary of Discovery communications which is responsible for severable authoritative research sources.

The Bad – http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/11/72113

I hesitated calling this article bad, but it should not be used in a current research paper. The article is from a nationally known publication in Wired magazine. However the article is dated November 2006, and we don’t know if the author is an authority on the subject.

The Ugly - http://techdirt.com/articles/20061114/104328.shtml

This web page gives a slanted view of VOI and is more an opinion piece than a work that should be used for a research paper. The author may be an authority, but it is impossible to say. It does say that it is from “the slow down skippy department”??? The article also does not thoroughly investigate the topic and is from 2006. Maybe a break through has happened on this issue in the last couple of years.