Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
by Mtinie on Monday August 29, 2016 @12:34PM
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> Do you have any examples of corporations submitting to FOIA..
No, I don't. "Public counts" in my comment refer to how the individual votes would be captured within a blockchain's ledger -- by design, visible and traceable.
I appreciate your follow-up. The right to free expression, and by association, the ability to vote, define our constitutional republic. It's so basic that I didn't consciously recognize it.
Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems
by MawNicker on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:40PM
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Is there anything that can solve this other than what you've described? They will grow and push indefinitely. It's like mass surveillance. Encryption works. It can just be impossible. The truly terrible outcome is if "internet voting" is both an excuse and becomes recognized as such. Then the public will fear "internet voting" for X decades. Even though it's ultimately the solution to this problem.
Do you have any examples of corporations submitting to FOIA (public record) requests?
My point is that our elections are being privatized. Internet voting is just the excuse.
"...my reasoning falls closer in line with Milton Friedman's..."
Mine's closer to Abraham Lincoln's:
Elections are what give a democracy its legitimacy. The right to vote precedes all other rights. Like the Zeroth law of Robotics. It's unstated because it's assumed because we voted ourselves (nation) into existence.