Electronic elections are a great idea. Just not for public office.
There are many other applications of election tech. Condo boards, clubs, professional associations.
What makes a lot of these applications interesting and somewhat easier is that very often, a ballot need not actually be secret.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 8:32 PM <shogunx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A few point to indicate that in practice, electronic voting apparatus is
an idea worth abandoning:
Exit polling anomalies:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/clinton-does-best-where-voting-machines-flunk-hacking-tests-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/
Testimony from programmer who wrote vote flipping code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyl_YNA8Hs
'Hacking Democracy':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YldIdkjrqM
On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, Keith Moore wrote:
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>> There is a vast literature here. I would be happy to talk more about it
>> with anyone interested in a more synchronous medium (I'll be in SIN for
>> 106). It doesn't seem to have a lot of relevance to issues at IETF, unless
>> I'm missing something.
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> Thanks very much for the references. Agree that it probably isn't strictly
> relevant to IETF's work, but I'm sure many of us are interested.
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> Keith
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