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> If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited, It's extremely hard to verify that whatever code you audited is the one used in the actu
by pgeorgi 6y ago
> If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited,
It's extremely hard to verify that whatever code you audited is the one used in the actual devices.
No such problem with pen and paper
- eru 6y agoPen and paper gives you both a safety margin (or transparency margin). And it allows you to signal in a hard to fake way that your elections are free and fair and hard to temper with. (Fair as far as the voting system goes. Eg first-past-the-post on paper will still be a less fair voting system than Germany's weird proportional hybrid or my favourite, range voting. Or this fascinating gem: https://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html https://rangevoting.org/PropRep.html)