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"We have since many years the tech to make it possible to vote on everything by everybody." Electronic voting machines and vote counting machines are hackable.
by pmoriarty 3y ago
"We have since many years the tech to make it possible to vote on everything by everybody."
Electronic voting machines and vote counting machines are hackable. Technology is the disease here, not the cure.
I wouldn't trust anything other than hand-counted paper ballots.
- still_grokking 3y ago> Electronic voting machines and vote counting machines are hackable. Sure. And elections in general aren't malleable? In a lot of cases that's even simpler than hacking a distributed cryptographic system. The problem with electronic voting is not the security. It's "just" the secrecy. That's the only hard problem. > I wouldn't trust anything other than hand-counted paper ballots. So you should stop trusting in any decision made in most parliaments on this planet. Almost all of them are made by primitive and completely nontransparent "press the button" electronic voting, which can be trivial hacked. But "voting" in parliaments is anyway just show for the dump masses. All the decisions are pre-made behind closed doors, of course.
- account-5 3y agoProvided of course you trust the person counting those ballots.
- still_grokking 3y ago"I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how."