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> Thanks in part to multiple levels of safeguards, impersonation fraud has been effectively non-existent. Unsuccessful fraud is effectively non-existent. Ther
by sugarpimpdorsey 1y ago
> Thanks in part to multiple levels of safeguards, impersonation fraud has been effectively non-existent.
Unsuccessful fraud is effectively non-existent.
There is no public data about successful fraud.
So why not make the system bulletproof?
Why do we constantly improve encryption algorithms? Why do modern web browsers not work with cipher suites on 5 year old hardware making them effectively useless e-waste? According to information security folks I can't even be trusted with the hardware in my own house. But we trust that all the mail in ballots were filled out only once by the person whose name is on the ballot. Okay.
- CharlesW 1y ago> There is no public data about successful fraud. The notoriously liberal (/s) Heritage Foundation maintains a public database of all known election fraud cases in the U.S., finding less than two-dozen cases since 1979. Many independent studies come to the same conclusion. Physical voting fraud is statistically negligible, if not perfectly non-existent. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be cautious about fraud, but impersonation fraud will not be how it happens unless we centralize and digitize voting. With that will come the inevitable centralization and digitization of new systemic risks at scale.