• sardaukar@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    You don’t want elections anything mixed with computers until computer architectures are more robust and verifiable. Not to mention that to mess with elections takes much fewer resources when they’re digital than when you have to corrupt thousands of vote counters.

    Just gonna leave this here https://xkcd.com/2030/

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      2 hours ago

      Exactly. I used to want digital election, and then I thought about it for half a second a realized how stupid that is.

      I’m 100% in the camp of universal mail voting. We can use machines to count votes, statistics and manual counting as a check against bad machines, and individuals can check if their ballot was counted properly. Blockchain can potentially be a part of that, but it should never be the core part.

      I don’t trust voting machines at all, paper ballots all the way. Maybe eventually we can do public key crypto, but not now.