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I think it's a great example of our governments' misunderstanding of modern technology and security. Our current governmental computer systems appear extremely
by spaceseaman 9y ago
I think it's a great example of our governments' misunderstanding of modern technology and security. Our current governmental computer systems appear extremely fragile[1] and prone to tampering.
If governments were actually serious about electronic voting, they need dedicated committees and bureaucratic entities whose sole responsibility is the maintenance and security of these systems.
I expect the United State to be absolutely crippled by cyber-warfare in the coming decades. On a state level, our government is simply incapable of recognizing the many vulnerabilities their systems have and compensating for them.
While personally I think electronic voting is a trash idea (couldn't we instead still vote via paper, and then read the results via ML? This would give us a "margin of error" of votes, but we would always have the paper ballots to fall back on), I think that tightening IT security is a good thing for governments to do. Especially considering just how poor computer security is for government entities.
[1]. Just want to mention I'm not a security guru. This is just my interpretation after visiting many government websites, reading stories, etc
- QAPereo 9y agoThere is always major opposition to anything which would cause many more people to vote, because that would utterly change the current political landscape. The turkeys won't be voting for Thanksgiving.
- jacques_chester 9y ago> couldn't we instead still vote via paper, and then read the results via ML? You just move the single point of failure to an even more difficult-to-prove location.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoI am struggling to see how machine learning has any role in this.