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While I love Tom Scott's videos, Andrew Appel (CS Prof. at Princeton) has a much better explanation[1] of the history of voting and why electronic voting is a t
by pdkl95 10y ago
While I love Tom Scott's videos, Andrew Appel (CS Prof. at Princeton) has a much better explanation[1] of the history of voting and why electronic voting is a terrible idea.
We have hundreds of years of experience learning how to secure paper ballots. Complexity creates attack surface, and usually fails to provide all of the security features provided by a simple paper ballot that is hand counted in view of all parties.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM