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Have you ever tried to inpelement a modified d'hont method manually? There are always computers involved. Counting hundreds thousands of votes manually will alw
by akytt 10y ago
Have you ever tried to inpelement a modified d'hont method manually? There are always computers involved. Counting hundreds thousands of votes manually will always yield an error that can be exploited. Voting as a concept has changed beyond what mr. Halderman is willing to admit. Let's say you have widespread electronic id and electronic voting. In isolation, this sounds mad. In conjunction with physical voting and common use of eid, not so much.
- oh_sigh 10y agoHow would one exploit a seemingly random error to favor a specific candidate over the other?
- admax88q 10y agoSeems harder to exploit manual counting of paper ballots than the firmware of some closed source system that's poorly understood by those deploying it. The larger the election, the more manual counters you will have. Which means the more people you would have to influence in order to rig an election.
- ComodoHacker 10y agoIronically, Russia is particularly good at it.
- blobbles 10y agoManipulating a manual ballot process is easy. Just stuff some ballot boxes. Doing so without leaving evidence all over the place is really hard. Widespread vote manipulation of electronic systems much, much easier to keep a secret.
- makomk 10y agoRussia tends to leave a massive trail of evidence when it rigs its own elections. It's just that Putin has enough of an iron grip on the Russian press and political system that it doesn't matter.
- kgwgk 10y ago> Have you ever tried to implement a modified d'hont method manually? What do you mean? Doesn't it just requiere to perform a few divisions?
- hackuser 10y ago> Voting as a concept has changed beyond what mr. Halderman is willing to admit. I don't understand what you mean. Why specifically can't we use the technology he describes? > Have you ever tried to inpelement a modified d'hont method manually? Where in the U.S. is that method used?