Re:Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
by vkou on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @05:55PM
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Generally, there's an incumbent, and a likely winner. If you have enough popular support to win a fair election, you can probably figure out how to mobilize a few volunteers to oversee ballot counting.
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Re:Researchers find trapdoor in SwissVote election system
by Not_a_pizza on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:18PM
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I think the general assumption that you have is that all voters have equal access to financial gain, free time, and other things that in any society known are heavily deviated towards the rich. Add to that the fact that the most heavily monied campaigns normally turn out to be the winners, and it becomes very difficult to claim the idea of fair elections has any real merit except as a nice theory we want to believe is true.