News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system. Parent comment

Re:Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @03:43PM (#19372152)
> Why don't paper ballots suffice?

Hand counting is costly, time-consuming and error-prone. Paper ballots with supervised electronic tabulation puts forward the best of both worlds. (It's how we do it in New York, too.)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system by llukas on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @07:16PM (#19374066)
More people involved and from more diverse backgrounds into hand counting then less likely conspiracy theories would be able to take a hold.

Democracy doesn't work without trust. Sacrificing trust for some speed is dumb thing to do.

[ Parent | on HN ]