Re:Hacking Voting Machines at Defcon
by miheermunjal on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:36AM
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this just re-stresses the point to COMPETITION in the electronic voting space. If you had a monopoly over the systems, what encouragement would you have to upgrade them? There are all sorts of ways to innovate "e-voting", and all of them are objectively improved over the current US methods
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Yap, let's introduce the "invisible hand of the free market" into the voting system. As we have all experienced, that always leads to the safest and most ethical outcome.
especially when the customer differs from the users
What are some of the benefits of e-voting that make up for the possible shortcomings?
From my perspective, e-voting is more difficult for the blind/disabled, more difficult to audit and check (you'd need to be a programmer that is well versed in cryptography to even begin to audit a codebase), much harder to verify/validate your own vote was even cast, much less reliable, and overall is confusing and harder to use.
The only benefit I can see is making it easier to vote for those working or who aren't able to get to a precinct. But that's a problem I'd much rather have solved by making it a mandatory holiday and providing state-paid-for transportation on election days.