Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by Skye on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:34PM
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In the UK, ballots are still done with pen and paper. You put a cross in one of the labelled squares and fold the paper, then drop it into the ballot box.
Also, while the guidelines say it has to be a cross, it could be any clear mark (though best not to risk it), as soneone drew a rude symbol in a square and it was counted as a vote! (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32693485)
Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:07PM
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> Or do you mean hand written ballots? Does anyone still use those?
Yes. The constitutional court of Germany ruled that electronic voting is essentially illegal in Germany due to all the inherent flaws, so all elections are done with pen and paper, ballot boxes, and manual counting.
Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by LinuxBender on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:09PM
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That's very impressive.
Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by jacques_chester on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:32PM
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> Does anyone still use those?
Most of the world's leading democracies.
The USA is actually the outlier.
Or do you mean hand written ballots? Does anyone still use those?
And yeah, the digital ones have been hacked at DefCon by children. (their parents taught them how to hack the devices, so I guess that is cheating)
Maybe throw in some Blockchain or did I use a BS Bingo term?