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And yet people are still seriously considering online voting.
by mtgx 10y ago
And yet people are still seriously considering online voting.
- ViViDboarder 10y agoBecause paper is incorruptible? There is plenty of room for tampering with physical votes too.
- MatthaeusHarris 10y agoYes, but it's much harder to hide a conspiracy to tamper with paper votes if it comes right down to it, since they're not all counted at the same place.
- kalleboo 10y agoOr building a currency that relies on keeping your computer secure
- pas 10y agocost-benefit. if you can get to the same amount of tampering risk for cheaper, you should switch to that process. we already spend billions on fraud detection, prevention, etc each year. and probably a significant portion goes undetected too.
- siilats 10y agoEstonian Online voting relies on the smartcard chip not cpu
- pas 10y agocost-benefit. if you can get to the same amount of tampering risk for cheaper, you should switch to that process. and you obviously can, you can do - let's say - a multi-factor voting, so you use multiple devices to record your intent, and you use different kinds of hardware to assess the votes.