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Single-point of failure. The biggest con of electronic voting that you forgot. Its a single-piece of software that can be manipulated or hacked to change the ou
by abdullahkhalids 8y ago
Single-point of failure. The biggest con of electronic voting that you forgot. Its a single-piece of software that can be manipulated or hacked to change the outcome of the entire election by a small group of people. Pretty much every month for the past few years there has been a major security hack that affects millions of people. The same will inevitably happen with an electronic voting system and may go undetected for months/years.
Second, usually in a paper voting system, the ballot box and the counting of the votes is always done in the presence of the election officer, and the representatives of at least two major political parties. All have conflicting aims, and to manipulate an election, you have to corrupt all three of them at many many polling stations.
- brownbat 8y agoI don't think that cuts one direction. Electronic doesn't have to have a single point of failure, that's a design decision. And paper ballots often have moments where they have single points of failure, like the examples I cited of missing ballot boxes. There weren't three corrupt parties involved in those.
- darawk 8y ago> Single-point of failure. The biggest con of electronic voting that you forgot. Its a single-piece of software that can be manipulated or hacked to change the outcome of the entire election by a small group of people Did you even read my original comment? It is not a single piece of software that can be hacked. It is a deterministic independently, cryptographically verifiable algorithm. You receive a receipt that allows you to personally and independently verify that your vote was counted correctly.