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To make things worse - you can't really verify your vote unless there is a complete paper trail. Basically you can have one of two things - computerased voting
by exo762 10y ago
To make things worse - you can't really verify your vote unless there is a complete paper trail. Basically you can have one of two things - computerased voting machines without denialbility of vote (impossiblity to sold the vote or impossiblity of getting punished for voting wrong) OR paper ballot voting somewhat augmented by computers.
Reason - we haven't solved basic issue of endpoint security yet!
- nickbauman 10y agoIn MN optical voting processors are OK because the paper ballot is always there to back up the electronic version. Not perfect but a decent compromise.
- tmaly 10y agoA friend of mine served as the registrar of voters for a small town in Connecticut. He told me there is a whole procedure they have in place to even handle the ballots once they are placed in the machine. There has to be a chain of custody. There is always that aspect of it, it someone can get a hold of a box of ballots and somehow slip those into the process, it would be easy to circumvent any machine that relies on a paper audit trail. A double entry system where you get your paper ballot optically scanned and you also place your vote into a independent system maybe even an electronic one could provide a better check against having just one system as a point of failure?