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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by chvid on Sunday September 11, 2016 @04:44AM (#12472537)
In the old system trustworthiness comes from having representatives from various political parties including opposition present at the voting stations.

For an electronic version of this you could do something similar: Allowing all parties to audit the voting systems insuring that traces of who voted what were destroyed and that votes were counted probably.

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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by hueving on Sunday September 11, 2016 @05:32AM (#12472630)
How could an average person without a CS background be able to ensure that all traces of a vote were destroyed to preserve anonymity?
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Re:Why I’m giving my company Election Day off by foepys on Sunday September 11, 2016 @06:52AM (#12472809)
How can you tell that even if you audited it, nobody will tamper with the system between the audit and the election? Being present at the voting stations is irrelevant because you cannot observe what the software actually does without standing right behind every voter.
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