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by dstroot
3517 days ago
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This is why we need a national electronic system using open source code. Each citizen of the republic should be assigned a citizen identification number and a second factor (password or fingerprint). We all go to a web site to vote. Voting opens for seven days, and closes at midnight PST the final day. Results are announced immediately afterword. It's time for the electoral college to be retired. |
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Anyone can count along with a ballot box. Anyone can stand there all day and watch the box to ensure there is no tampering, they can count, recount, and recount again. Anyone can do this. Plumbers, programmers, doctors, the unemployed, the elderly, and even the illiterate. It can be counted by one person, or 100.
But when things go electronic, the number of people that can even understand it is cut down to programmers. And the number of those that could accurately vet the security of a program is even smaller. And even a perfect electronic system needs loopholes (you can't just disenfranchise voters because they forgot their password or don't have a computer), which means the ability of fraud is still there.
Paper works, and takes a LOT of resources to sway even one precinct (even just the fact that it requires purchase of physical materials ups the amount of cover up required), let alone a county, state, or the federal levels. And because of the number of people involved, if someone did try the chances they would be found out is pretty damn high.