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If it's a digital democracy it's neither secure nor a democracy. The system can be rigged with the oldest means possible: a knife to the voters' throat. I rea
by bowlofpetunias 12y ago
If it's a digital democracy it's neither secure nor a democracy.
The system can be rigged with the oldest means possible: a knife to the voters' throat.
I really wish fellow techies would cut this kind of dangerously ignorant and arrogant crap.
We've invented polling stations and voting booths for reasons other than being fucking Luddites. Only in the voting booth behind drawn curtains, an anonymous ballot paper and zero potential electronic surveillance equipment are you free to cast your vote without external pressure and manipulation.
And the result, the counting process, should be observably by any voter, including the ones that don't know shit about software. I.e., the manual counting of ballots.
That's a fucking democracy. Totally secure and yet totally transparent and verifiable.
The rest, like this project, is a self-important sideshow that only serves to undermine true democracy, and half the time that is the actual agenda.