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If there's a discrepancy, you count the paper receipts. You can order a million simple chips for like $0.03. They chip vendor isn't going to know who is running
by KGIII 9y ago
If there's a discrepancy, you count the paper receipts. You can order a million simple chips for like $0.03. They chip vendor isn't going to know who is running for dog catcher in 2018. You test a random sample to ensure they can count. You use simple code that is open source and write it to the memory exactly once and blow the fuse to prevent tampering.
We can put people in space. Verified hardware and software is a solved problem. Well, assuming you don't make it absurdly complicated. All it needs to do is eliminate manual counting - while providing a paper printout should someone need a recount.
You don't even need special tokens to make sure the person in the booth is only voting once. You can be as simple as making it flash an LED to be monitored by the election officials. They have volunteers from the various parties already there watching. Watching a light may even be easier.
It doesn't need to be complicated. It need only be a glorified abacus.
- CydeWeys 9y agoDid you reply to the wrong person? My comment was about one simple thing: It should NOT be possible to prove to anyone else who you voted for. Your reply doesn't seem to address that. Separate from that, what does using millions of one-use physically collected chips buy you that just writing to a paper ballot doesn't?
- KGIII 9y agoYou put your printout in the box, as I said above. It prints it out, you put it into the box after confirming it says you voted for who you said you voted for. You buy millions of chips so that we never have to go through this again. This way, the validated code and hardware don't have to be worried about, for a long time. The chips go in the machine, they run it. You'll have spares for a very long time. What does this do? When the polls close, they don't have to count them. They need only count if there's a demand to do so, like a recount today. That's it. Problem solved.
- CydeWeys 9y agoOh, so you're in favor of electronic voting for instant results plus a write-only auditable paper trail. That's what I favor too. I didn't quite understand what you were getting at the first time; sorry about that.