Re:Three N.H. towns are testing new voting machines that use...
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:01AM
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> In France the ballot boxes are translucide
Penn and Teller, in one of my favorite jokes of theirs, say that an unwritten rule of the cups and balls trick is that you must not ever perform the cups and balls trick with clear plastic cups.
However, magicians do frequently make something about a trick of theirs transparent - figuratively or literally - as a way of making you more surprised when they pull the trick off anyway. You were looking in the wrong place, at the transparent part of the trick.
That's not to say transparent boxes are a bad idea. They really do make some attacks harder.
Penn and Teller, in one of my favorite jokes of theirs, say that an unwritten rule of the cups and balls trick is that you must not ever perform the cups and balls trick with clear plastic cups.
However, magicians do frequently make something about a trick of theirs transparent - figuratively or literally - as a way of making you more surprised when they pull the trick off anyway. You were looking in the wrong place, at the transparent part of the trick.
That's not to say transparent boxes are a bad idea. They really do make some attacks harder.