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Voting machines seem like a bad idea. If the investigation finds things about those machines getting hacked, it's going to be gruesome.
by jokoon 10y ago
Voting machines seem like a bad idea. If the investigation finds things about those machines getting hacked, it's going to be gruesome.
- mcv 10y agoThey are a bad idea. Netherland recently banned the use of voting machines. The main problem to me is that to most people, voting machines are a black box. You can't verify that your vote was correctly cast and correctly counted. And if the voting machine or the count can somehow be compromised, it can be compromised on a large scale, unlike with paper ballots, where it would be a hell of a lot of work, and easily detected by layman observers.
- wahern 10y agoBeing a blackbox means that you can also imbue it with magical powers, like being hacker-proof, or whatever quality you wish to believe in. And some "expert" pundit will always be around to back you up. And that's why the U.S. has and will continue to have horribly designed electronic voting machines.
- DoodleBuggy 10y agoAgreed, that seems obvious. Boring old paper with a carbon copy trail seems to be a lot safer.
- herbst 10y agoWell it wouldnt be exactly magic to make blockchain based voting machines.