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The same way human ballot counter is an attack vector. And indeed, they are compromised in places with rigged elections.
by varjag 8y ago
The same way human ballot counter is an attack vector. And indeed, they are compromised in places with rigged elections.
- monocasa 8y agoExcept the numbers of human counters increases linearly with the number of ballots cast. And the counting generally happens in a room with several people from multiple counting the same subtotals. So no, not the same as human ballot counters at all.
- varjag 8y agoI'm not talking in hypotheticals. This is happening since holding sham elections became a fashion among dictatorships. Most of the human ballot counters there are compromised and cooperate on the ground.
- monocasa 8y agoAnd everyone involved knows that it's a sham election. There's no scheme that'll work under those circumstances.
- pas 8y agoDoesn't matter. In places like those the same people could simply fake vote with the perfect-counting machines. (Or the machines can be simply replaced with identical looking, but hacked ones.)
- skrause 8y agoIn Germany and many other countries the counting of the paper ballots is public. Anyone can watch and make sure that everything is counted correctly.