Re:Log4Shell update: second Log4j vulnerability published
by NaturalPhallacy on Thursday December 16, 2021 @08:41PM
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It's not about tallying digits, it's about maintaining the secret ballot, and making it really hard to commit election fraud. (As opposed to voter fraud, which is an insignificant problem.)
It's such a bad idea that Tom Scott has not one, but two videos on it:
And also, if 20 people can handle ballots from 1000 people (no clue if that's realistic but it doesn't matter), then if you add another 1000 people.
Well... since you added people and the resource you need to count is people it's a self scaling solution. Sure you might need larger facilities, but we're not exactly running out of schools (another thing tied to the population).
The only reasons to make voting electronic are:
* To make money
* To commit election fraud
which is why I said there are no "good" reasons. :)
It's such a bad idea that Tom Scott has not one, but two videos on it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI (Computerphile channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs (his channel, more recent)
And also, if 20 people can handle ballots from 1000 people (no clue if that's realistic but it doesn't matter), then if you add another 1000 people.
Well... since you added people and the resource you need to count is people it's a self scaling solution. Sure you might need larger facilities, but we're not exactly running out of schools (another thing tied to the population).
The only reasons to make voting electronic are:
* To make money
* To commit election fraud
which is why I said there are no "good" reasons. :)