33
Real paper ballots are a must: N.Y. needs to get rid of touchscreen voting machines
(www.nydailynews.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
33 points (97.1% liked)
Politics
10514 readers
217 users here now
In-depth political discussion from around the world; if it's a political happening, you can post it here.
Guidelines for submissions:
- Where possible, post the original source of information.
- If there is a paywall, you can use alternative sources or provide an archive.today, 12ft.io, etc. link in the body.
- Do not editorialize titles. Preserve the original title when possible; edits for clarity are fine.
- Do not post ragebait or shock stories. These will be removed.
- Do not post tabloid or blogspam stories. These will be removed.
- Social media should be a source of last resort.
These guidelines will be enforced on a know-it-when-I-see-it basis.
Subcommunities on Beehaw:
This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The German constitutional court declared voting machines unconstitutional for the simple reason that they don't allow people with just an ordinary education, no specialist knowledge, to ascertain for themselves that the vote is kosher.
The CCC actually tried to get them outlawed based on technical grounds, including that it's impossible to have electronic voting that is both secure and private ("can't prove to the Mafia boss how you voted" type of private), the judges listened intendedly and asked many smart questions, just to then turn around and say "yeah we barely understood that and we're practically all professors and it's our job, can't expect J. Random Citizen to do that between shifts".