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It's not insane if you look at the motivations behind who was pushing them.
by rthille 9y ago
It's not insane if you look at the motivations behind who was pushing them.
- nvr219 9y agoPlease explain I don't know anything about this
- slavik81 9y agoI hope you're not implying some sort of conspiracy theory. As far as I can tell, the driving motivation seems to be saving money. We just had our municipal elections. Plenty of regular people saw the slowness and the expense of paper ballots. Some asked about switching to electronic voting, because even to a layman it's obvious how computers could potentially make tallying votes faster and cheaper. The part that's not obvious is security and making results auditable. That's much harder for electronic voting, but it's not as obvious to a layman.
- RobertoG 9y agoPaper ballots are more secure, precisely because they need a lot of people in the process. If most of those people is chosen randomly between the population, as it happens in my country, the system is pretty robust. As this is HN: It's a distributed system, every node making its own checks. So, the answer to the complains is that the slowness and the expense are a feature, not a bug.