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All the things that anyone thinks can go wrong with online voting are already features of the voting system today. Your votes are tabulated by online computers
by jellicle 6y ago
All the things that anyone thinks can go wrong with online voting are already features of the voting system today. Your votes are tabulated by online computers, who send votes electronically to other computers, all of them with bottom-of-the-barrel security, and the totals are reported as gospel (or manipulated, who knows). Bad actors can force people to vote as they wish. Everything is closed source and secret.
That's how elections are conducted today.
A proper online voting system could have maximal verification. Bruce Schneier could be handcuffed to the mainframe to verify it. Offer a $1 million bounty for every bug found. Make a system that has multiple independent watchdogs watching each other, and if the code on any is changed they all freak out. Every line of code could be scrutinized.