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Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems by Terr_ on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:02AM (#45666486)
Hardly: History shows the repeated failure of the alternative, where only the "qualified" may vote.

Terrible people just corrupt the qualification-mechanism instead. That evil tactic tends to be more-effective and longer-lasting than trying to appeal to the lazy-stupid vote.

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Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems by like_any_other on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:57AM (#45692068)
> only the "qualified" may vote

You think this is a fair characterization of what I wrote? That it not being worth sacrificing the security of a voting system to get the most disinterested and incapable to vote, is equivalent to some unstated "qualification" test?

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