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My design uses paper and pen. Deployment requires mailing ballots out and having places where people can come in to fill them out. 10 million dollars please.
by anth_anm 8y ago
My design uses paper and pen.
Deployment requires mailing ballots out and having places where people can come in to fill them out.
10 million dollars please.
- TomMarius 8y agoHow is that better than whatever we have now?
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoThe pens in poor neighborhoods have ink.
- config_yml 8y ago/wooosh
- Barrin92 8y agoI legitimately don't understand what's the invention here. If all you're trying to do is avoiding having an invalid or ambiguous ballot and you print out a paper copy anyway, why invest 10 million into a new system instead of just using some bog standard computer + printer? If you're going to get the physical ballot anyway what's the point?
- bdamm 8y agoSystems comprising entirely of pen/paper and manual counters with oversight by the parties, where sufficient engagement in the community provides the volunteer manpower to oversee the election, are impervious to electronic interference.
- MBCook 8y agoHow well does it work for people with motor disabilities? Vision disabilities? Does an X mean a choice or they crossed out their choice? What happens when the pens run out of ink? What if they can’t read English? Helpers? What do you pay them? Can they understand that dialect of that obscure language? Do you trust them not to lie about what they’re marking on the ballot for someone? The truth is electronic voting machines have upsides. Having the system fill out the ballot which the voter then hands in seems like an almost ideal use to me. It’s totally verifiable but can help many people who wouldn’t be able to vote without help.
- anth_anm 8y agoDon't care, my system is still better.
- monocasa 8y ago> Do you trust them not to lie about what they’re marking on the ballot for someone? Do we really think that a large conspiracy of translators for obscure languages is a viable attack?
- MBCook 8y agoI was thinking more when helping the visually impaired.
- jacques_chester 8y agoAustralia scales pen and paper up to tens of millions of ballots cast in one day. These problems have all been solved before and don't need machines to introduce much worse ones.
- gjs278 8y agohomeless people can’t under this system