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How is any of this less transparent than pulling a level on a black box and hoping it gets counted?

• krapp 12y ago
  The attack surface becomes much, much bigger. It literally takes everything that's inherently insecure about elections to begin with and adds everything that's insecure about the internet and the post office as well.
  • hga 12y ago
    It also allows coercion and vote buying, as does any remote system where someone can be looking over your shoulder. The "pulling a level on a black box" is so obviously a massive source of fraud I wonder how the people pushing the systems can do so with a straight face. The best system I've used has ballots on hard card stock where you draw lines to indicate votes. 3 columns, 2 sides, it can cover a lot. You then personally put the ballot into an optical reader, but critically the paper ballot remains for recounts etc.