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I'm not sure it is solvable. Voting has to satisfy two requirements: 1) Votes must be private and anonymous (i.e. not linked to your identity) 2) Voting must
by birdperson77 6y ago
I'm not sure it is solvable. Voting has to satisfy two requirements:
1) Votes must be private and anonymous (i.e. not linked to your identity)
2) Voting must be secure
It's easy to satisfy either one of these requirements, but currently impossible to satisfy both.
- tomcam 6y agoPieces of paper in big boxes work pretty well, especially when they are enclosed in a sealed envelope with return address information for verification in case of fraud accusations.
- h_anna_h 6y agoHaving the return address information on voting envelopes is a simple way to destroy deniability. Now you can prove who voted X if you have access to the envelopes.
- trickstra 6y agoI would argue that the paper voting doesn't satisfy both conditions either. And while putting a paper in a box is vividly understandable to the average voter, whatever happens to the vote after that point isn't, as evident by the number of people believing that a Texas lawsuit may overturn Michigan election results.
- chrisco255 6y agoThat's because there's video evidence of Fulton County Georgia poll workers clearing out all poll watchers on the basis of a bullshit pipe leak story and then as soon as everyone left they brought out suitcases of ballots and started scanning them in. There's 1000 affidavits of egregious election fraud and abuse in this election. The Supreme Court's refusal to even hear Texas's case is outrageous.
- tdons 6y agoDefine 'secure'?
- cheschire 6y agoSeems fairly obvious and self explanatory to me. A secure vote is one that has a result that cannot be altered once it has been cast.