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> electronic voting should be outlawed Nationally regulated, sure. Verified with a physical copy (or a different system), sure. But banned altogether? You migh
by throwaway823882 5y ago
> electronic voting should be outlawed
Nationally regulated, sure. Verified with a physical copy (or a different system), sure. But banned altogether? You might as well ban everything in the world that is digital, as none of them are fool-proof.
Voting isn't even that important. The wrong guy gets picked, what happens? Same bullshit as if the right guy got picked. If your choices are "Hitler" or "Jesus", then your system is just fucked up, and making voting fool-proof isn't the way to fix it.
In addition, electronic voting would be a boon to democracy. It would provide another avenue for maligned minorities in remote areas be able to vote, when things like paper ballot voting in the middle of a pandemic might fail or be error-prone (esp. when a fascist fucks with the postal system), or local authorities enforce racist requirements like a physical ID card.
- cletus 5y agoIf you vote on a touch screen and it prints out a paper ballot, that's fine as long as that's a legible ballot, like not just a QR code or something. The voter should have confidence in the output. Likewise, if you use a pen or pencil to fill out a ballot that then is counted electronically, that too is fine. In both cases there's a paper ballot as a source of truth and that's what's key.
- heraclius 5y ago> Voting isn't even that important. The wrong guy gets picked, what happens? Same bullshit as if the right guy got picked. If voting is unimportant, why do you care about racist requirements for physical ID cards? Perhaps there might be some sort of connexion between the two!
- throwaway823882 5y agoIt's more important that you are able to participate than what the result is. Better to have an insecure system where 10 million people get to vote, than a secure system where only 10 people get to vote.