You are viewing a single thread.
View all comments View context
13 points
*

The problem is not being secure; it is convincing people that it is secure. Even the stupidest person understands that marking off a paper in a booth and then depositing it in a locked box is secure. The voting method must give voters confidence that their vote was counted, the election was fair, and the results are legitimate.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Also, you can recount papers if you think something somewhere went wrong for some reason. You can’t manually recheck software.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-5 points
*

That gives so much more opportunity for human intervention.

A good locksmith is all it takes to manipulate the votes.

Even if you keep it under tight security and surveillance they can bribe the security.

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

In my state, here’s how it works:

  1. Receive ballot by mail
  2. Drop ballot off at a drop box
  3. Wait a few days
  4. Check online that it was received and the signature is accepted
  5. Check on election day that the vote was counted

To break that system, you’d need to also hack the website or manipulate the votes on election day. That’s a lot harder than manipulating proprietary software by bribing a software engineer somewhere.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points
*

In my country here’s how it works:

  1. Parties provides free food and transport to unemployed masses they know will vote for them
  2. Wait 3-4 hours in queue at polling station to receive ballot in person
  3. Drop ballot in secure box
  4. Go back to work for a few days
  5. See on election day that the party that spent the most on voter courting wins

How would you propose we deal with this when people who are working (and can’t take a day off to go vote) would come out in much smaller numbers than ones that have nothing else to do (and get free lunch and transit to and from the polling stations) and even when voting happens on a weekend you have to trade your only time off to go and vote out of the goodness of your heart.

I think this is one of the reasons for digital voting - I’d much rather be able to vote from work or home or anywhere when I don’t have the time to sit on a queue for 5 hours just to have my vote diminished by a group that isn’t politically active but loves a free lunch and something to do

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

In many countries there is a security camera placed over the ballot box which is livestreamed to the Internet

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

People Twitter

!whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

Create post

People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.

RULES:

  1. Mark NSFW content.
  2. No doxxing people.
  3. Must be a tweet or similar
  4. No bullying.
  5. Be excellent to each other.

Community stats

  • 9K

    Monthly active users

  • 803

    Posts

  • 37K

    Comments