They wanna make it as difficult as possible

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bluesoul on June 11st, 2020 at 15:44 UTC »

Gonna take off the POC hat for one minute to put the nerd hat on.

Paper balloting is raggedy and outdated, but we simply don't have a good enough system for alternatives. Every system on the market has been hacked with honestly, not much difficulty. I'm not saying we won't get there, but we shouldn't make this move until it's actually a bulletproof system, and as much crazy shit as we can do with computers, we're still nowhere close.

A good twitter follow on the subject is Matt Blaze, who has testified before Congress numerous times about the poor state of election security and advocates for paper balloting even now.

When the biggest collection of eggheads and nerds in the world, the information security community, tell people that computers aren't ready for the responsibility of running an election, please understand we don't say it because we just like the status quo. We just know the limits of the system we've got right now.

E: Thank you for the awards, consider this instead as Breonna Taylor's family gears up for a long legal battle with a very crooked system.

Kerswellkawaii on June 11st, 2020 at 15:45 UTC »

From what I understand it's not that simple. Tom Scott did an excellent video on electronic voting machines, but basically it's difficult to keep the data from being stolen, lost or altered by hackers.

I'm not saying there's no voter suppression, i don't know enough to comment either way, but there's more to it.

Double-oh-negro on June 11st, 2020 at 17:04 UTC »

Unfortunately, the only alternative to paper ballots eliminates anonymity. Online banking works because the bank can confirm your identity and the source of the check.

Any voting technology would need to confirm who you are to verify you haven't voted twice and that you're a real person. I'd be ok with anyone knowing my votes, but there are some very good reasons we don't do that.