16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines

Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by umvi on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:41PM (#20760187)

Ok, and how do you verify that your vote was cast for X candidate (i.e. that the machine didn't count your vote for Y candidate)?

There's no way to do that without tying the voter to the vote somehow. Why not hash the voter ID + a secret of your choosing and store that with the vote? Then, even if counting by hand, you can verify your vote was indeed cast for X candidate.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by brlewis on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:26PM (#20760684)

Such verification would enable a market for selling votes.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by umvi on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:38PM (#20760828)

Just make vote selling illegal then? Or just make verification onerous, so that you can only do it during a recount, not on-demand via the internet.

I would rather be able to verify that my vote was cast to the desired candidate than to have a strictly anonymous (but unverifiable) voting system.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by beat on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:09PM (#20760496)

Paper.

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