3 ms·
Of course there is. If the green party gets elected all of a sudden, everyone will smell a rat. On a more serious and technical level, auditable voting systems
by lhorie 6y ago
Of course there is. If the green party gets elected all of a sudden, everyone will smell a rat.
On a more serious and technical level, auditable voting systems have both been developed already, and deployed/used. Just because you haven't seen them doesn't mean they don't exist.
- pessimizer 6y agoThat you cite their existence without giving an actual example is a strong indication that if they do exist, you aren't aware of them either.
- lhorie 6y ago...or maybe I foolishly assumed in good faith that people are smart enough to google for things that challenge their preconceptions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_auditable_voting_...
- pdonis 6y ago> If the green party gets elected all of a sudden, everyone will smell a rat. Of course, but that's not the most likely failure mode.
- lhorie 6y agoObviously the example is extreme, but it still applies in other scenarios since polls often predict outcomes. Take Brazil for example. Presidential elections are about as high stakes as they come, they have been electronic for decades and election results pretty much always align with polls. There are no known cases of tampering despite the high amount of chronic political corruption. Failure modes in the system are much more mundane: buying votes, manipulation of lower classes (so called "voto de cabresto"), smear campaigns and the like.