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That would not improve things. A voting system must be able to be checked by any citizen at any moment. Most of the citizen can't: - understand a complex cod
by sametmax 10y ago
That would not improve things.
A voting system must be able to be checked by any citizen at any moment.
Most of the citizen can't:
- understand a complex code.
- ensure the machine is running this code, easily, conveniently or quickly.
- ensure the machine is not, or will not be hacked, by software or hardware mean.
- ensure the program does calculate the votes correctly, with no bug.
- do any of this in an autonomous and spontaneous way required to make a check healthy.
- bbatha 10y agoDon't let perfect be the enemy of good. Opening up code in voting machine would be leagues better than leaving it closed source. At least other experts in the field could verify it. Its also not like every citizen today can or understand all of the vote counting procedures with paper ballots, even when just constrained to their ballot.
- sametmax 10y agoOh yes, I don't discourage it. I just think that you can't be satisfy with it. Open source voting machine are still an abomination for the democratic process.
- GenerocUsername 10y agoremind me again how the open-source part makes anything worse than a standard voting machine?
- daveguy 10y agoI think it's an electronic voting machine in general. There must be a paper ballot trail. The absolute best setup for voting is the scan-tron style paper ballot. Immediate confirmation, quick and continuous vote tallies, errors are very rare and it includes a paper trail.
- sametmax 10y agoIt does not. Read the entire thread before being offended.
- godelski 10y agoMost people can't understand the code in openssl. So we shouldn't use it? Let's just make all cryptography closed source then. The average person doesn't even know what an elliptic function is. The point is that there is a large amount of people that do. They check. Not every citizen needs to check, but it is harder for there to be an error or to hoodwink someone if there are more eyes on the code. Essentially why opensource cryptography is good too. Essentially, it can easily be audited.
- sametmax 10y agoCrypto and democracy can't be compared. You can delegate advanced science, you should not delegate democracy, because it's the root of all the rest.
- godelski 10y agoOpen source voting software isn't delegating democracy, it is auditing the tool that is being used.
- whoopdedo 10y agoIsn't delegating democracy what we do when we elect someone to congress (or parliament) to draft, debate, and enact the law?
- sametmax 10y agoWe are not, in fact, in a democracy at all. But that's for another debate, right now I'm using the current convention to express an idea.
- sfsinger 10y agoGood point, @godelski