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How do you know they don't change your physical ballots?
by PrimeDirective 8y ago
How do you know they don't change your physical ballots?
- lolc 8y agoYou can inspect and watch the ballots.
- drdeadringer 8y agoWhat is stopping The Public from watching electronic ballots just as equally as electronic ballots? If I wanted to see paper ballots, how is that different from wanting to see electronic ballots? I'm not confident that I could successfully petition Government for paper ballots just as much as I could sue a given contractor for same electronic records.
- lolc 8y agoIf I want, I can go down to my polling place before it opens, inspect all the boxes to be empty, watch as people put their ballots in, then watch as the boxes are emptied and the ballots counted. If I'm not allowed to do all this, I can't trust the vote unless I trust the people that administered it. Electronic voting always requires trust in the administrators.
- anticensor 8y ago> watch as people put their ballots in This is not allowed in many jurisdictions. You can watch the before and after part easily, though.
- contravariant 8y agoWhen someone writes something on a piece of paper, puts that piece of paper in a box, and later I see someone reopens that piece of paper then I can be reasonably confident I see whatever the original person wrote on the piece of paper. I have no such confidence in electronic messages. Unless they're plaintext.
- pedrocr 8y agoBecause the count is done by representatives of each party together and each of them won't let the others steal for their side. The characteristics of paper elections are well understood and can be shown to be sound very easily to any common citizen. The massive attack surface of electronic elections is poorly understood even by technical people. It's a massive amount of complexity and expense for exactly zero gain.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoI the UK system each party has monitors who observe the count and also get involved in any disputes.