Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack

Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by dev_dull on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:47PM (#17668917)

This is exactly why I'm a huge fan of burdensome, difficult, snowflakey voting systems. Every state should be different. It should take many people to count the ballots. It should be hard.

Just like a natural organism, mono-cultures collapse because they are vulnerable. Voting should be a distributed system.

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Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by mhh__ on Thursday August 02, 2018 @06:37PM (#17676052)

This is the system we use in the UK, lots of people in lots of rooms counting ballots.

Any ideas for change motivated by efficiency should be looked at with extreme caution: You can't hack a ballot box but an electronic machine - especially many all made by the same company, as would be likely - is infinitely easier.

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Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by mr_overalls on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:00AM (#17671408)

> snowflakey

I'm not sure if you're making a subtle political point here, or if there is a use of "snowflakey" that I'm not aware of.

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Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by erk__ on Thursday August 02, 2018 @10:12AM (#17671500)

I guess it is used as a synonym of unique here.

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Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by dev_dull on Thursday August 02, 2018 @12:02PM (#17672523)

Yes unique. Is that not what the word means anymore?

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Re:Town dusts off typewriters after cyber-attack by mr_overalls on Friday August 03, 2018 @11:17AM (#17680567)

I was thinking of how Trump supporters call liberals "snowflakes," but the meaning didn't seem to fit here. Thanks for the clarification!

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