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I believe it was MIT that ran a study a couple of decades ago that proved that people were unable to influence policy through voting because the effectiveness o
by K0balt 1y ago
I believe it was MIT that ran a study a couple of decades ago that proved that people were unable to influence policy through voting because the effectiveness of lobbying put the vote inputs below the noise floor?
- bluefirebrand 1y agoYup. Our votes basically don't matter because our democracy is captured by lobbyists
- omnimus 1y agoSeems like the votes somehow matter. If Trump didn’t win there wouldn’t be tarifs right?
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoThat's assuming that the voting machines accurately counted the votes and weren't tampered with
- david-gpu 1y agoTom Scott provided an excellent explanation of why electronic voting is a terrible idea. Original: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI Follow-up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoHaven't watched them (yet), but I don't think it's because of the electronic side of things, but more the closed source, black-box nature of the specific devices. It would be possible to design a reasonably secure, open source voting system that would allow voters to validate their votes.
- david-gpu 1y agoHave you had a chance to watch them now? The videos explain why electronic vote counting itself is the problem, not the closed-source black-box nature of any particular devices.