Re:Votes could be counted as fractions instead of as whole n...
by devopsproject on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @01:29PM
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> the institution will suffer serious harm
The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it.
> How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?
Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital)
> Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold
If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.
The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it.
> How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?
Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital)
> Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold
If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.