I like to coin words. I am a fan of Stephen Colbert. And so I have coined the word "oxytopian" to talk about this dream of a secure Internet voting. I think that's -- secure Internet voting is a bit like the phrase safe cigarettes.
- RONALD L. RIVEST, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Today there was a story on PBS News Hour about internet voting. This may sound like deceptively simple problem especially given the fact that there are many internet polling products in the market already. Polling problem has been solved multiple times. Most notably with Facebook Question, you can easily set up polling among your Facebook friends. Is voting different from polling?
