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Investigate anything hard enough and it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. Hard to imagine any result to that investigation that would be universally accept
by sixstringtheory 2y ago
Investigate anything hard enough and it’ll tell you whatever you want to hear. Hard to imagine any result to that investigation that would be universally accepted.
Why not apply a little bit of technology to the problem so we can verify our vote was counted, and that only legitimate votes were counted?
- gadders 2y agoThe obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/ https://xkcd.com/2030/
- sixstringtheory 2y agoRead the alt text. I can’t grab it on mobile, but it basically boils down to: never say never, and in service of that future possibility, we actually should explore it until such time that conflicts of interest naturally resolve. If your tech friend says everything sucks in tech, then why should their judgement even be taken at face value? They’re part of the problem!
- gadders 2y agoGrabbed it - not sure it disagrees with either of us. "There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired."