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Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by Balgair on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:13PM (#24456718)
32-bit counters are also fallible. In a 2003 Belgian election, a cosmic ray changed to vote totals due to a bit flip: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/bit-f...

As they go into, it's not easy to explain to the public or other election officials how this happened, or even what happened at all.

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Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by dividuum on Saturday September 12, 2020 @07:36PM (#24456858)
Excellent example and exactly the reason low-tech is the way to go. Thanks for the link.
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Re:Why online voting is harder than online banking by dllthomas on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:24PM (#24463250)
With high tech, you can (and should) have error correction. With low tech someone could easily misread handwriting.

I believe low tech is preferable, but I don't think this is the reason, unless I'm misunderstanding something.

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