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I was thinking the same thing. Glad someone is doing this, because the hope is obviously it'll massive increase the efforts anti-democratic individuals or orgs
by misterhtmlcss 10y ago
I was thinking the same thing. Glad someone is doing this, because the hope is obviously it'll massive increase the efforts anti-democratic individuals or orgs need to invest to determine the outcome of an election; which isn't all that high today.
- davidgerard 10y agou wot m8. How much money could a collective of billionaires apply to a 51% attack? A 49% attack? Cheaper or more expensive than lobbying?
- ianstormtaylor 10y agoDo you have any evidence of it being easy to influence the outcome of the election? As far as I can tell there are a ton more exploits to be had, from less powerful (money, connections, etc.) people in an electronic system than in our current paper system. Right now the only individuals who have massive influence on an election are the candidates themselves (and maybe some specific people on their team). The next closest individuals are probably the extremely, extremely wealthy, and there aren't that many of them, and they don't even have as much power as you'd think.