Ok, two words? Effing cool.

Swiss to protect voting data with 'unbreakable' quantum encryption

A new "unbreakable" encryption method will be keep votes safe for citizens in the Swiss canton (state) of Geneva in the country's upcoming national elections, officials said Thursday. The city-state will use quantum technology to encrypt election results as they are sent to the capital on Oct. 21, said Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva.

A computer in Geneva, provided by the company id Quantique, will fire photons, or particles of light, down a fiber-optic link to a receiver 62 miles away.

How effing cool is that? I mean... photons included with your voting experience?

My only question? How is it that Switzerland... a politically neutral country was the first to implement such advanced technology, hmmmm?

This is why I love quantum physics...

Lately, scientists have been working on experiments involving photons and slits and such suggest the mind-bending concept that the future can leak into the present. Physicist Jeff Tollaksen of George Mason University says the weak measurements may show that “something that happens now is affected by something that happens in the future. It suggests that the universe has a destiny — a destiny that is out there and coming back to us from the future.”

Well, that last part is a stretch (quantum destiny? Not so much...) but certainly gives one something to chew on for a while.