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Are minor, random inaccuracies due to hand-counting mistakes the main danger a voting system must guard against, or is it against covert, malicious manipulation
by like_any_other 1y ago
Are minor, random inaccuracies due to hand-counting mistakes the main danger a voting system must guard against, or is it against covert, malicious manipulation from compromised computer systems?
> Prior to 2022, no legislatures were considering this [mandating hand counts] extreme proposal.
An honest article wouldn't call the counting method used in most of Europe, Canada, Japan, India, and countless other countries, "extreme". Of course it deftly omits mention of any other country, leaving the reader uninformed. I'm sure it's just a coincidence..
- ajross 1y agoIt's clearly neither. The real danger is note the adjudication of the elections themselves, it's the acceptance of the results. The danger is the belief by a plurality of the ruling party's support base that elections are somehow fraudulent, because that empowers the ruling party to ignore democracy. We may already be there, and threads like this are in fact the means by which democracy dies.
- like_any_other 1y agoHow about we don't compromise a voting system with black boxes just because there are unrelated attacks against it? If you prefer, you can think of it as following in the example of "more enlightened" countries, like in Europe, Canada, India, etc.., that already do it this way. I am from one such country, and I enjoy not having a bottomless rabbit hole of computer security underpinning our elections.