Re:Argentina's voting machine system leaked?
by cam_l on Saturday June 20, 2015 @02:40AM
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"There are significant chances for it to go wrong"
If you read that link you posted you would realise this is the first time it has happened on this scale. Ever.
The implementation of electronic voting in NSW has had its own problems[1]. Candidates missing from the screen, hacks allowing anonymity or votes to be compromised. Representative democracy voting shouldn't be fast or cheap. It should be careful and methodical.
Also, there is a fix proposed to the senate paper situation, allowing optional preferencing above the line, and optional preferencing below the line of 6 or more. Of course, both major parties have since all but rejected this as being too democratic.
So in this context, what is the point of electronic voting?
If you read that link you posted you would realise this is the first time it has happened on this scale. Ever.
The implementation of electronic voting in NSW has had its own problems[1]. Candidates missing from the screen, hacks allowing anonymity or votes to be compromised. Representative democracy voting shouldn't be fast or cheap. It should be careful and methodical.
Also, there is a fix proposed to the senate paper situation, allowing optional preferencing above the line, and optional preferencing below the line of 6 or more. Of course, both major parties have since all but rejected this as being too democratic.
So in this context, what is the point of electronic voting?
[1] https://theconversation.com/thousands-of-nsw-election-online...