Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

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[LeopoldRamutsamaya]

That's the good thing about Africa, our election results are known before we even go to the polls so we don't have to worry about all of this...

[Tiennuskhan]

To me you didn't even give the main flaw of voting from your phone or your computer : there's no guarantee that you've not been threatened or bribed to vote the way you did with someone checking behind your back whether you did what they told you to. No one can verify under which conditions you voted. With a physical booth this guarantee exists.

[toranine]

this just makes me think about the story where a flipped bit in a 2003 belgium election count resulted in a candidate receiving over 4000 unexpected votes

[rewp]

It's so funny that every time you say "no one does that" it's exactly what the Brazilian system has done for 30 years

[prismarinestars]

Imagine going into a voting booth and seeing the Doom title screen.

[mcb]

At my poling place, they use a touchscreen monitor to display the ballots to you, but that’s it. You still get handed a paper ballot, and you still turn in a paper ballot. All the computer dies is take your input and punch a hole in the right spot on the paper. It then tells you to verify that the correct markings were made. I, as a visually impaired person, very much appreciate this.

[tobenamed]

As someone who does poll work in Canada, the paper ballots and all the record keeping we do makes it next to impossible to tamper with the vote. Even as poll supervisor it would be impossible for me to do without getting caught.

[infrabread]

Rule 34b: If it exists; Doom will be ported to it.

[rafaelalmeida]

You should read about the eletronic voting system from Brazil. The same difficulties you'd have to alter a significant number of paper ballots can be applied to the eletronic machine. Each eletronic machine have a determined number of people who can vote. There is no way you can change a significant amount of machines to change the course of the election especially considering the number of people and the size of the country. In fact, it would be easier to change a lot of paper boxes during transportation for boxes previously altered for onde determined candidate. In addition, the software is verified by universities, army, congress, and other entities before and after the election, and all these must agree during the process.

[DavidSnul]

I have been a poll worker for elections in Portugal for many years now and I completely agree. Election security is one of the things we should be most conservative about. Here in Portugal, we have to individually count all the ballots we receive before the voting starts, and we must cross-check that by the number of people who have voted, based on the registration rolls, with the number of ballots that have been entered into the ballot box, and the difference must match the number of ballots that remains unused at the end of the day.
All the counting is done under the observation of the party delegates and you are forbidden by law to hold any pen or writing instrument while handling the ballots. If there is any discrepancy in any voting table, even something as small as a missing signature or one lost ballot, you get called into court and you have to explain it to the judges.

[denissdenisson]

One of my favorite things ever is people just wanting to play doom on every concievable device.

[NaruShadow]

Tom: "I trust that the device you're watching this video on is completely Malware free"

Me: "I'm glad you do because I don't"

[Amirhesamyan]

In Iran, we solved this problem already. We know the election result before the election.

[kibaanazuka]

The only times I've heard of electronic voting in some form is overseas voters (Military or Overseas Citizens) in my home state where they can fax or email a ballot to the county elections office to vote in an election. The main thing is that you are still filling out a paper ballot and having to scan or fax your ballot to the elections office who treat your ballot as an Alternative Format Ballot that is verified of the signature and then put onto an official ballot so that it can be run through the machine and tabulated.

[Chraan]

Honestly, who needs an antivirus if you can just watch this video where Tom Scott himself checks your computer and assures you it's clean

[freddieindaboxx]

Just add an "i'm not a robot" captcha then you're fine.

[kennymayberry]

"you don't even need to break [the election], you just need to cast enough doubt."

As an American... can confirm

[mabimabi]

My dad has worked when voting was done by paper here in Brazil. He saw how easy it was to manipulate the results. Compared to that, electronic voting is still not only safer but also much more efficient. All the possible problems regarding electronic voting could also happen with paper.

[piguu]

Just realised Tom did this in one-take.

[thecarelessgamer]

4:58
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