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It's not even all about being hackable. Voters should be able to fully understand exactly how their vote is counted. These systems ain't it.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Unironically blockchain go brrrrr
"Risk of being hacked by AI or human is still too great."
But he trusts his life and everyone elses to the AI and computer code in his car that goes 0-60 in 2.5 seconds to not be hacked. Makes sense actually yea.
Can't election committees call recount anyway?
EVMs, especially those, that do not connect to the internet, are fine. Online voting on the other hand...
I think in year 2024 we should be able to vote using a fucking app. No gerrymandering, everyone 18 our older automatically registered to vote.
If we could do that we never see another Republican in office again. Add rank choice voting and we might even have people who give a shit and can fix this country.
We really need positive digital ID. The US DoD has the right idea with the CAC, though really it's just a digital certificate issued by the government. The smartcard format is convenient for being wallet-able but there's plenty of other form factors for these things these days.
It amazes me that we as a society do official, important real-life things on the Internet with no way to validate our identity.
I even cringe a bit anytime someone tells me to DocuSign. Buying my house was a trip, especially all the forms that took place before closing. Like, it's great that I'm signing these things digitally, but there's still no proof that I'm the one signing these. I'm not in the presence of a notary, lawyer, or any sort of witness. I'm just clicking a link on an email and drawing my finger on the screen. That could, theoretically, be anybody who gains access to my email, with or without my permission.
But, if I'm signing with a certificate, I have provided a PIN or password to unlock this device I carry on my person, that a trusted third party had given me when proved that I am who I say I am, in person. It's a solid technology and it really needs way better adoption.
But muh mark of the beast!
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I want to be able to vote online, too, but then I think about how easy it is to falsify your identify online vs in person and I don't know how it could work without introducing a new level of probable fraud.
I'm confident that if done correctly we can make it work. Like I said it would keep Republicans from ever winning again so be impossible to get our politicians to put money into a secure app that allow us to easily vote.
Barring that we should eliminate gerrymandering and electoral collge and make automatic registration for anyone over 18.
We know for a fact they can do that because they just did it with the draft.
Software guy here. I'd like a paper ballot. If it's possible, it wouldn't be done correctly anyway.
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I want everyone to have a cryptographic identity rooted in government trust that they use for voting and everything else related to the government.