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A couple of examples from the first minute of the video: - A ridiculous example of "electronic voting" is presented - voters download ballot papers, fill them,
by onestone 10y ago
A couple of examples from the first minute of the video:
- A ridiculous example of "electronic voting" is presented - voters download ballot papers, fill them, then email or fax them back. This obviously sucks in multiple ways. Therefore, all kinds of "electronic voting" must be broken.
- Physical voting is very old, therefore it must have become solid and tamper-proof by now. This is not true. Physical voting is vulnerable to all kinds of manipulations, and they do happen on large scales.
The wrong claims continue forward. Just because that dude sounds smart doesn't mean his clip has any value.
- vladimirralev 10y agoThis "ridiculous" example is very real and famously practised to this day MASSIVELY in many countries [1]. It is the prime example of what most people understand as e-voting. He does address other types of voting as well later, including the "open-source bullet-proof machines". The guy explicitly says physical voting can be compromised easily too, but it requires much more people and it will exhibit patterns such as location stats, violence or outbursts of whistleblowers and it is more or less contained unless the whole country is on it in which case - good for them anyway. While with e-voting, you could technically be a very small group of people and you can model your fake results to be statistically plausible much better with no patterns. [1] https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-matters/benefits/voting.html https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/en/abroad/legal-m...