[kwlug-disc] Say No To Electronic Voting ...

[Khalid Baheyeldin]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:00 AM Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
> Actually, computerized != centralized
>
> this is why technologists start to look for an online solutions, as
> distributed needs online, which not centralized.
>

It is centralized one way or the other.
If you have computers in each polling station feeding into a central
computer
that tallies the results, then the programmers for the central computer can
be bribed or coerced into flipping every nth vote for some candidate, and it
is game over.

If there is no central computer, there still is a program that has to be
loaded
on tens of thousands of distributed computers. That program has to be
identical on all machines. Again, it requires a specialist to create the
program
and a specialist to audit it, and those can be bribed/coerced. What we lost
here is that the lay person has no way of knowing that a program is fair,
or tampered with, other than "trust me, I am a specialist". Even if we pass
that point, there is no way to guarantee that what was audited is actually
what was loaded into the machines.

Paper has none of those problems, given enough eyeballs watching the
whole process.
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