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on Friday April 24 2015, @11:50PM
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.
from the never-trusted-those-things-anyways dept.
From the Wichita Eagle:
A Wichita State University mathematician sued the top Kansas election official Wednesday, seeking paper tapes from electronic voting machines in an effort to explain statistical anomalies favoring Republicans in counts coming from large precincts across the country.
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheLink on Saturday April 25 2015, @03:39AM
May not be so good at fulfilling one of the requirements of a voting/election system.
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=6515&cid=157399 [soylentnews.org]
You missed out one major requirement of any voting system (and elections).
0) Convincing enough of the losers that they have lost.
If a voting system can't meet that requirement it's a waste of time and resources and could make things even worse.
So while there are fancy crypto techniques that can be used to implement a secure online voting system, these systems are unlikely to satisfy that requirement.
In contrast this requirement can be satisfied by a simple paper ballot box system where voters and observers can see the votes go in, not go anywhere and get counted one by one in front of their preferred side's representatives/electoral monitors/observers. Some magician could tamper with the votes, but you'd need magicians in enough polling stations..
Convincing enough of the losers they've lost should be a major requirement of any election system. Whether it's rigged or not ;).