[luoc]

I voted in the 2021 election for the current German government. Later, I moved to Berlin, where they had to repeat the election this spring due to some screw-ups back then (turns out running a marathon on election day is not a good idea). So I was asked to vote again and I did. I checked with the authorities and everything is fine.

I suppose there's some noise in any voting system, and it's fine if the magnitude is small and its distribution random. Looking at the US, I'd be more worried about gerrymandering than a few votes from the dead.

[alphazard]

> I suppose there's some noise in any voting system, and it's fine if the magnitude is small and its distribution random.

This is the right answer. It's amazing how many people insist that elections have absolutely no fraud or other sources of error. In most elections throughout the world, it's apes counting paper with their squishy hands and blurry eyeballs. It's remarkable that we even get 3 significant figures reliably.

[cozzyd]

It's not unbiased noise though. People with the highest likelihood to die soon (elderly men) have different voting preferences than the general public.

[red369]

I'm not sure I'm thinking about this correctly, but I'm not sure that it's relevant that elderly men die younger than elderly women. I think it would only be a bias is they were dying at a faster rate, relative to their population size, than other groups. That is, the size of the elderly male population was shrinking compared with the elderly female population.

[luoc]

Mhm, I noticed the issue is not 100% clear from my description: I eventually got two votes in the same election

[lifeisstillgood]

Many years ago we ran an event at a hotel for few hundred delegates. One guys booking for shitpiled and he was complaining. My boss tried to explain that 99.9% of the delegates got everything they needed - he came back with “yeah but for me it was 100% wrong”

Voting matters. Individuals matter.

We should aim for no one being 100% wrong

Then again, I disagree with him. It’s just he was a customer.

[gerdesj]

"One guys booking for shitpiled and he was complaining."

Please correct this sentence.

[QuercusMax]

I assume "for" should have been "got"

[appendix-rock]

Yup. Precisely. A lot of election ‘security’ relies on this premise.