Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by fixermark on Thursday March 14, 2019 @05:12PM
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The problem is that the vast majority of elections aren't counted incorrectly, and you're vastly increasing the cost on an under-funded system for no benefit in five-nines of the cases (and the remaining cases can have a recount triggered by one of the candidates, but not at no cost to them).
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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System
by bdamm on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:51PM
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I fail to see what the downside is of counting every election twice.
Frankly the cost of elections doesn't seem to be a serious problem for any government. They're choosing to fix some roads instead of boosting the quality of elections. Frankly I'll take the election over potholes or whatever else the government is spending money on, because if I can't trust the election, I can't trust the government.