• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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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?

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        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.

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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.

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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?

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        Because what you vote is supposed to be anonymous…

        If you ignore the anonymous part, then it’s obviously not an issue.

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          The only real risk comes if their voting server that decrypts votes would be compromised and no one would realise it. As with any electronic service there of course is some risk, nothing is 100% secure, but I would personally take that risk to vote electronically.

          Here’s an overview how their process works, feels pretty solid.

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        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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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        Paper voting leaves a literal paper trail unlike electronic voting that’s always a total black box in all countries that have tried it.

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          Blockchain based voting leaves a permanent and indelible record on the blockchain for all to see.

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          Look, mate, paper voting simply doesn’t work. And Russia is not the only example.

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        Manual in person voting is not easily scammed on a scale that can swing an election. The slow, inefficient, in person, physical process is a security feature.

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        I don’t get what’s wrong with paper ballots sent by mail. It’s convenient and easy, with a paper trail for recounts. It’s worked great in Washington for decades.

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          There’s no way to guarantee privacy. An overbearing spouse, an anti-union boss, or a judgmental pastor could all insist on seeing the votes marked as they prefer.

          A voting booth was invented for this very reason.

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            You can fill it out in a booth if you want, there’s in-person locations with help for the disabled and privacy areas.

            It’s illegal to insist on seeing someone’s vote, so I’m not sure what would stop such people from requiring this hypothetical person to record themselves voting at a polling location. In general mail in ballots make voter intimidation much more difficult.

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        Manual in person voting is easily scammed, just look at voting in Russia.

        Let me check. *looks through window* It’s not the biggest source of voting fraud. Biggest source of voting fraud is Venedictov’s box - Digital Electronic Voting.

        Fuck this shit, everything should be 100% digital.

        Sobyanin approves.

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        it absolutely is not easily scammed at all.

        every single piece of paper is numbered and tracked. (tickets and stubbs, basically). all counting is done by multiple people and watched by anyone who wants. political parties are banned from voting premises.

        even better: early voting, in person, up to a week or two before. no crowds.

        errors happen about 1 in 1,000,000 with a maximum of a couple hundred, and are caught immediately.

        there is no scamming. all of the USA’s voting problems are self-created.

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        Not just digital but trustless decentralised blockchain based so it’s impossibly hard to manipulate