• @[email protected]
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      That’s loads of BS. Manual in person voting is easily scammed, just look at voting in Russia. Fuck this shit, everything should be 100% digital.

    • @[email protected]
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      Seems to work alright for Estonia, they have had an option to vote electronically since 2005. If I can sign legal documents, pay bills and do other government related stuff electronically, why suddenly voting is a huge problem?

    • @[email protected]
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      But is scantron voting electronic voting? Is mail in voting and early voting electronic voting? Is being ID’d on the voter registry because you know your SSN and address, name, signature, without having to use yet another ID electronic voting?

      • Melllvar
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        96 months ago

        I would say that “electronic voting” means that the ballot itself is digital rather than physical. So, scantrons are not electronic voting and voter registries/ID/etc. are not ballots in the first place.

      • @[email protected]
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        I think the supposed risk to electronic voting machines is that there would need to be thousands of them, are distributed, somewhat unattended, and operated by people that don’t know them.
        The possibility of an exploit or misconfiguration increases, and the ability to compromise someone supervising one of the polling station increases.
        If there is are centralised systems, fewer higher skilled people would be required to secure/monitor/run the system. It can also be airgapped.

        While some of these risks are also applicable to in-person and mail-in voting, these systems have been around for ages, are not proprietary, and anyone can figure out “how it works” and can make sure “how it happened” matches.
        As soon as you get into cryptographic vulnerabilities and security, 99.99% of people would be lost in the woods

        The rest of the questions, I feel, are more systematic things.

      • @Drewelite
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        36 months ago

        Off topic, but… Can we retire this idiom? It’s in this thread like 3 times and it’s always used by people uncomfortable by the fact that someone they don’t like made a good point.

        • @[email protected]
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          76 months ago

          it also exists in multiple different cultures with very different languages, so it seems it is not going away anytime soon

        • BlueFootedPetey
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          We should retire the idiom because people are using it as intended and everyone understands it as intended?

          • @Drewelite
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            I think people intend it to be a clever undercutting of the person they dislike. But it stopped being clever ages ago. When does something become a cliche? Because it just sounds petty now.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          It’s not about “someone I don’t like”, it’s that this guys opinions are pretty much always beyond total shit.