On Wed, 2024-07-17 at 14:21 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > Again, OT, but many people who think voting systems are simple > > haven't > > actually thought it through (and experienced IT experts are > > particularly prone to this fallacy), I mean it's just counting > > isn't > > it?). The real world problem is not the technology itself, it's > > persuading people to trust something they can't see, where some > > actors > > have a vested interest in telling their supporters that the system > > is > > fraudulent or that The Man is trying to manipulate them. > > In North dakota, USA, we have paper ballots counted by machine. > Some other states have gone all-electonic: > There is no real provision for discovering, > much less fixing problems. I've looked at such OCR systems. I don't know what ND uses but there are proprietary systems that a) don't let you look at their code, and b) require you to license software to print the actual ballots. Nice little business. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
