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> Selling a paperless voting machine is like selling a car without brakes This is comical FUD. What makes people think paper is safer? The paper copy you have
by ricardobeat 7y ago
> Selling a paperless voting machine is like selling a car without brakes
This is comical FUD.
What makes people think paper is safer? The paper copy you have is worthless since you can counterfeit it, and the one in storage can be replaced or falsified just the same. A secure system can be designed regardless of the storage media - i.e. a digital one can be as safe or safer than paper. Brazil has used electronic voting for decades now, and despite accusations (by the winning party!) there has been no proof of tampering or exploitable security flaws.
- justwalt 7y agoBecause it takes a lot more effort to massively influence the outcome if you have to falsify paper votes as opposed to electronic. The latter can be scripted.
- beat 7y agoHow Minnesota does it: Blank ballots arrive in sealed packages. Ballots, whether blank or marked, sealed or unsealed, may only be handled in the presence of election judges from at least two different political parties. Counts are kept, by those groups. And ballots, either blank or marked, are generally kept under lock and key. Attempts to insert extra ballots will be detected by the count. Attempts to substitute ballots would have to match counts exactly, and somehow be done without being seen in a room with multiple other judges and other people.
- brlewis 7y agoUntil the U.S. catches up to Brazil on this front, there's plenty of reason for people to think paper is safer.