DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System

Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by jacques_chester on Thursday March 14, 2019 @07:43PM (#19395058)

By having dozens of people watching everything except the actual marking of the ballot. Scrutineers are highly motivated: they want to catch the other candidate cheating.

I've been a scrutineer in a polling room. I could watch and challenge anything except the marking of a ballot. And I did. So did other scrutineers. The odds of the mobster keeping a rotating scheme without detection approach zero with great rapidity, especially since staying in the ballot after casting your vote is not permitted.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by snowwrestler on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:38PM (#19395961)

Yup. In the U.S. they are generally called poll watchers.

https://www-m.cnn.com/2016/10/29/politics/poll-watchers-moni...

Also, a voter who is being intimidated by a mobster could just walk up to a poll worker or police officer and report it.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by zepolen on Thursday March 14, 2019 @10:29PM (#19395917)

He wouldn't stay in the ballot - he'd pocket the slip and take it outside...

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by jacques_chester on Thursday March 14, 2019 @11:03PM (#19396077)

Returning to my point, which is that he'd need to do this without anyone noticing.

A bit difficult since there are officials watching you put the ballot into the box. Or, gee, that's weird, failing to put the ballot into the box.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by zepolen on Monday March 18, 2019 @05:12AM (#19419628)

Couldn't they put a random piece of paper in the ballot box?

What happens if a white piece of paper is found? Do all the votes in the box get cancelled?

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