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Truly Secure Voting Is on the Way (scientificamerican.com)
2 points by geek-advised 2348 days ago
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The article barely misses the main point:

> In the end, an election is a complex sociotechnical machine, which means all citizens—not just election officials—will need to be on guard in 2020 and beyond.

Sure, but you have just brought "uses video selfies to verify voters' identities and sends blockchain-encrypted votes to a digital lockbox" into the process. How exactly is a non-programmer citizen supposed to be on guard for something like that?

It's amazing to me how far people are willing to go in order to avoid paper ballots.