To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software

Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by matt_wulfeck on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:15PM (#14971382)

The fact that it doesn't scale is exactly why we should stick with it. We want voting to be hard, distributed, and diverse. That prevents a single county or state from destabilizing the rest of the country. It should prioritize accuracy over speed and all else.

It's like an ecosystem. The more homogeneous the system then the more vulnerable we are to a single virus (or hacker) we become.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by cortesoft on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @01:43PM (#14971704)

Wait, why do we want voting to be hard? If voting is hard, that means it takes more time to vote, and not everyone is equally able to take extra time to vote. A disproportionate percentage of the voters will end up being people with more time and/or more flexible schedules.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by vertex-four on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @02:50PM (#14972394)

They mean vote counting should be hard.

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