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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by 2Gkashmiri on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:10AM (#33516372)
why can't voting happen on machine-online in realtime basis?

we can do polls for thousands and millions on facebook for example and the results are instant. everyone gets one vote and there is no double spend problems so why is political voting living in dark ages?

sure it has open source software now but in india for example, machines are transported physcially, they are tampered with in the interim, machines get lost on and on

isn't this a solved issue for any online portal?

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by josephcsible on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:12AM (#33516379)
The difference between Facebook polls and elections is that there aren't severe consequences of a Facebook poll indicating the wrong winner.
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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by 2Gkashmiri on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:17AM (#33516399)
no. that is not my point. wrong people get elected without any real consequences so that is not really an issue.

the question is about using technology.

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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by Akronymus on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:31AM (#33516793)
If you can somehow intercept the data, you can correlate when someone voted with that data and possibly find out who they voted for through that
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Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use... by 34675904565 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:49AM (#33516547)
Facebook polls are neither secret nor verifiable. Facebook knows how everyone voted, and voters cannot verify that Facebook is reporting the correct result. Those problems can theoretically be solved with cryptography (assuming the voter has full control of the device used to cast their vote), but not in a way the average voter can understand and verify.

Another problem with online voting is that malware can infect a voter's device to spy on how they vote and/or change their vote. I don't think there is a solution to that problem.

Online voting is a terrible idea. The only way to have secure elections is to publicly count every ballot by hand. If you think that's too expensive, you think electoral democracy is too expensive.

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