Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
by yazan94 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:18AM
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I'm not sure what the laws are in NZ, but can a non-citizen vote in a NZ election? If noone checks for any sort if ID, how do they ensure that there isn't any fraud? In a democracy, I'm honestly not convinced that 'its not that big of a problem yet' is a sufficient answer
Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
by zfgnu on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:17AM
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Marginalised and poor voters exist in Europe and they have an ID card like anybody else. Having yours done could be free, if you're so inclined.
Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
by pjc50 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:55AM
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The problem is that the system would be run by racist state governments who would construct the system in the worst possible way.
(Not a conjecture, this was actually evidence in one of the various voter ID lawsuits; the state government had constructed a table with impact assessments of various approaches, then picked the one with the worst impact)
Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem
by danpalmer on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:41AM
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Just because ID is free does not make it universally accessible.
If the office that hands out ID cards is only open 9-5 Mon-Fri, for example, a voter who must work during this time and can't afford to miss work may not be able to get ID.
Requiring voter ID disenfranchises marginalised and poor voters, who may not be able to obtain ID easily. I know several people who have no form of government issued ID.
It's different in countries like Germany and France, where compulsory national ID is a thing.
Rates of fraud and abuse are low enough that this isn't an issue. Technically I could go and vote in somebody else's name, and hope they also didn't vote, and I most likely wouldn't get caught. But if they did vote as well, then the double-vote would be noticed (people have have been caught casting multiple votes in the past) and would be investigated.