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Paper and pencil aren't a perfect solution either. This page shows a few examples of where things have gone wrong. http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2008/12/tim
by uptown 11y ago
Paper and pencil aren't a perfect solution either. This page shows a few examples of where things have gone wrong.
http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2008/12/timewasters_the_ballots/ http://blogs.mprnews.org/newscut/2008/12/timewasters_the_bal...
In the case of the Florida Presidential vote, they ran into the problem of "hanging chads" where parts of the page that were intended to be fully punched-out so a machine could detect the vote were still attached to the page, leading to further scrutiny over deciphering the true intent of the voter's ballot.
- slasaus 11y agoThat was not a pencil but still a lot of technology/mechanics. But you're right, paper and pencil are not perfect, just the most secure we can practically achieve these days and probably for the upcoming decade. See this video of J. Alex Halderman on e-voting in Estonia and about electronic voting in general [0]. (Halderman is a professor also known from the cold boot attack and the more recent vulnerabilities in a lot of Diffie-Hellman implementations). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY_pHvhE4os
- Marazan 11y agoThe chads was due to yet more voting machines not pencil and paper.