Technology has revolutionized our habits and many of our daily actions. Millions of people every day are using the PC and the Internet to perform transactions
banking, play the stock market, book medical appointments, contracts, check the status of their administrative practices. But technological progress has affected all sectors: Fortunately (some argue) operations are strong and securely anchored to the paper, for example, the vote.

Although the Internet has become an excellent means of political propaganda and dissemination of programs and initiatives of candidates and parties, the manner in which we are called to cast our votes are the same as fifty years ago. In fact, the last election saw us still struggling with the dear old card mark with indelible pencil, to fold up and put in the urn. And maybe for that long vote counting operations, disputes, claims and judgments, because the election even one vote can be decisive.
These problems, costs and inconveniences all easily avoidable with the use of new technologies, namely the use of so-called electronic voting. For years
now in Italy, as in all major Western countries, he's talked about, but we were at the stage of experimentation. This phase seems to end with the ' announcement of the Minister of the Interior , Giuliano Amato, to "stop the electronic voting machine." The news, which was also welcomed in the blogosphere is perplexing.
It discusses the problems too, that the risks of electronic voting could bring: uncertainty of results, the possibility of cyber attacks to the system.
Rarely mentioned, however, concrete experiences in which electronic voting has definitely supplanted the traditional one, sending retirement cards,
pencils and urns. And 'the case of Brazil, where the presidential election last October's voters (from the megalopolis of Rio and Sao Paulo to the most isolated villages in the jungle
Amazon) voted for the second time through a computerized system . In full respect of vote secrecy, errors are avoided, canceling preferences and bare without end. To my knowledge, there have been protests and all political forces, with great responsibility, they accepted the results without requiring any verification.

I wonder, then, because we have electronic voting fails to take off. Certainly needs to be preserved the authenticity of the vote and should be avoided risks
fraud but, as the example of Brazil, there are now tools and technologies to enable the accuracy of electronic voting. One should not forget that, as Tom Stoppard said, "the vote that makes a democracy, but the counting of votes."