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Sounds pretty based to me. Leave voting alone. Write your vote on paper, bring it in yourself. Sure there's room for improvement in the process, but sprinkling
by seanw444 5y ago
Sounds pretty based to me. Leave voting alone. Write your vote on paper, bring it in yourself. Sure there's room for improvement in the process, but sprinkling networked computers in to solve every problem is the wrong approach.
- kingcharles 5y agoOff-topic, but do you mean "biased" when you say "based"? I feel like I'm in some parallel universe because I swear for the last 6 months I've not seen a single person spell biased right. Was there a meeting where everyone agreed to make a confusing change to the spelling and no-one told me about it?
- slackfan 5y agoNo, based =/= biased.
- smnrchrds 5y ago> Based is a slang term that originally meant to be addicted to crack cocaine (or acting like you were), but was reclaimed by rapper Lil B for being yourself and not caring what others think of you—to carry yourself with swagger. > Based has been appropriated by the alt-right online as a general term of praise, as if “un-woke.” https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/based/ Well, TIL.
- eti 5y agosee: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based+God https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based+God && https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=based
- maxerickson 5y agoAlso https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-god https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/based-god
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- CryptoBanker 5y agoIt’s a young persons word…
- exfascist 5y agoI'm still not convinced it isn't partially related to the word "base" as in "bad" or "cool" which has been used for a pretty long time.
- kingcharles 5y agoOK, cool. So it's like how everyone tried to make "on fleek" a thing a little while back?
- simiones 5y ago"Based" is similar to some uses of "cool" - it's a kind of generic positive adjective. You can read it as "sounds pretty good to me" / "sounds pretty cool to me". It has nothing at all to do with "biased".
- Markoff 5y agoI've never seen it used as "cool", it's much more commonly used as synonym for "conservative" or "unique going own way despite popular opinion". EDIT: Other poster explained it maybe better as "being yourself and not caring what others think of you".
- simiones 5y ago> "unique going own way despite popular opinion" Well, that's at least one aspect of "being cool", so I still feel they are at least vaguely related.
- jpadkins 5y agomore specific than just cool, it sometimes means the opposite of debased (: to lower in status, esteem, quality, or character. : to reduce the intrinsic value of (a coin) by increasing the base-metal content ) I've read it as high quality, high character, or high value depending on the subject.
- tenebrisalietum 5y agoBased is the opposite of cringe, the usage started with 4chan and continues on /pol/ to this day.
- yohannparis 5y agoJust to be accurate, we do not write anything, you gather an envelope and take 12 pieces of paper (one for each candidate), then in the booth, you fill the envelope with your chosen candidate. There is a bin to dispose of the other papers, or dispose of them elsewhere for complete anonymous. Most people just take the one they want, or the few they are still undecided before getting in the booth.
- athenot 5y agoUsually a voting official standing nearby will ask that you pick from at least 2-3 piles.
- pmontra 5y agoThis system doesn't feel good especially because they are allowed to "just take the one they want". It feels like an easy system to game with the goal to make sure that people vote what they are told to vote. Maybe nobody even thinks about doing such things in France, lucky you. This has reminded me what happened on the other side of the Alps in the elections of 1929. People received two envelopes. One with the national flag on the inside and a white one. They left inside the booth the one they didn't like and gave the other one back to the scrutineers. The outside was almost the same but the color inside was visible from the outside [1] Guess the result. Hint: almost 99% to 1%. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Italian_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Italian_general_election [2] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elezioni_politiche_in_Italia_del_1929 https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elezioni_politiche_in_Italia_d... for more details and pictures of the cards inside out.
- seszett 5y ago> This system doesn't feel good especially because they are allowed to "just take the one they want". You actually have the obligation to take at least two of them. I'm not sure how strongly this is enforced, but most people take a few of them.
- Thervicarl 5y ago
- jasonlaramburu 5y agoHow is dropping an envelope in a box more secure? It would seem trivial for an attacker to create one or more fake ballots and slip them in the box along with their real ballot.
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoHow do you scale it to thousands of ballot boxes across the entire country? One line of code is all it takes for the voting machines.
- pif 5y agoIt is more secure because you validate the envelope: more than one ballot implies the envelope is discarded.
- seszett 5y agoThe envelope is dropped under close scrutiny by officials in a standard box with a thin slit, it is unlikely that one would be able to insert fake ballots there. Even if that was possible, after the vote closes the ballots are counted and the amount must match the number of people who voted, so the result would be invalidated.
- jasonlaramburu 5y ago>Even if that was possible, after the vote closes the ballots are counted and the amount must match the number of people who voted, so the result would be invalidated. So an attacker could potentially invalidate hundreds (or thousands) of votes by stuffing a single fake ballot into the box? This seems like the illusion of security.
- seszett 5y agoI'm not sure exactly what happens, it's never happened when I was counting ballots. Invalidating a box could result in up to a thousand votes being discarded indeed, which is quite small though for a national election.