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No I don't want you to move my vote before I can see it. Use computers to do the count fast and first if you want to, but I want paper receipts also stuffed int
by 3pt14159 10y ago
No I don't want you to move my vote before I can see it. Use computers to do the count fast and first if you want to, but I want paper receipts also stuffed into a box and I want to be able to observe the whole process and I want to be able to observe the votes being physically counted at the end.
Democracy gives so much legitimacy to her government that it will be gamed if it's possible.
- stretchwithme 10y agoIf you have your ballot encoded on a punch card, you should be able go a pc with a punch card reader at the polling place and see what is actually encoded on it. The software to read the card could also be open source. Or you could have an app on your phone that snaps a photo and reads it according to the settings published by the municipality where you are voting. All that can happen before you give it to a poll worker.
- 3pt14159 10y agoYes but I don't want that. I want to be able to read who I voted for with my eyes. I want to be able to check that the ballot box is empty when it comes in and I want to be able to verify that every voter only got one printout that they could check with their eyes what they voted before sliding it in the ballot box. I don't want anyone to be able to stuff a box with a bunch of votes I didn't see. And yes, voting by mail has some of these problems, but it makes up such a tiny fraction of the vote where I live I put up with it without complaining. Voting needs to be so secure that when people like Trump call an election rigged we need to be able to laugh at him and show everyone how secure it is.
- stretchwithme 10y agoIt sounds like you want to be a campaign worker.