Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots
by ddingus on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @03:33PM
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We can do that if we make votes personally identifiable.
That is the core difference.
Without personally identifiable votes, we have no way to assure the voter their vote record cast matches their intent as they have no trusted way to evaluate that record.
When we press a butyon, or touch a screen, we have to trust the feedback we get. When we make a physical mark, the chain of trust is complete.
The problem is the machine can literally do anything and then just tell us what we want to know is true without it actually being true.
Electronic records are a forced vote by untrusted proxy.
Financials are personally identifiable and multiple parties are involved, which catches this problem nicely. That is why they work as well as they do.
That is the core difference.
Without personally identifiable votes, we have no way to assure the voter their vote record cast matches their intent as they have no trusted way to evaluate that record.
When we press a butyon, or touch a screen, we have to trust the feedback we get. When we make a physical mark, the chain of trust is complete.
The problem is the machine can literally do anything and then just tell us what we want to know is true without it actually being true.
Electronic records are a forced vote by untrusted proxy.
Financials are personally identifiable and multiple parties are involved, which catches this problem nicely. That is why they work as well as they do.