• @Penguincoder I have no degree in Computer Science. I graduated International Relations. However I am still really passionate about FOSS due to the way it brings real world democracy into technology.

    While there are some places in which technology has no place (particularly voting), I believe that technology can help our societies become more open, transparent, involving and better functioning.

      • The problem is how difficult it is to ensure it is open and verifiable. Not to mention how much easier it is to scale up attacks on digital voting systems.

        If I want to forge enough paper ballets to swing an election I’m going to need a few hundred people in on it, with a group that large, someone is going to squeal, or get caught doing something dumb and uncover the conspiracy, if I want to forge digital ballots, well, I just need one person with know how and the right exploit.

        It is certainly possible to make a digital voting system that is immutable once the votes are submitted, it is nearly impossible to make one that ensures that the votes being submitted are legitimate.

        It’s a lot of effort and increased risk to roll out an acceptable electronic voting system, it is much easier and safer to just keep using paper ballots.

  •  flatbield   ( @furrowsofar@beehaw.org ) 
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    Just no. I want to elect people to take care of these issues. On the other hand, I absolutely want a more open process. This includes IRV or a similar better system for choosing between options. Some sort of proportional representation would be useful too. It also includes local and national media that actually spends time looking at what is going on. So for the article, +1 on openness, but just no more tech to use time I do not have.