Paper ballots are better than having your vote as some digital number everyone can fuck around with.
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Christian Wilson
Aiden Phillips
the pajeet could still make it in java and it could be put on some arm board instead of the windows pc
Luis Perry
Likely it's a combination of both: a stripped-down Windows without the overhead of the full desktop shell, specifically for embedded applications. Windows runs on all sorts of shit you wouldn't expect to find it: ATMs, kiosk-displays, etc. Plebbit has a good collection of public BSODs.
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Jordan Robinson
The biggest problem I see, beside MS's involvement is the fact that just because each person can verify their own vote, doesn't mean the totals are valid. The only way I can think of to verify every step is to handle each vote like a transaction (the transaction would carry the vote, not be the vote itself, so voting multiple times just pisses way your tokens and doesn't actually get counted multiple times) in a block chain, the network wouldn't allow modified miners to mine, and attacks would become very evident. Though you would need to incentive citizens to mine some how, since you wouldn't be able to trust it being handled by the government or any large centralized entities. Maybe allow citizens to exchange the extra tokens for bonds or a tax deduction. This still leaves the possibility of people buying and selling votes (by selling their private keys). Not to mention since a significant portion of the population is convinced anything that contains the phrase "block chain" is a ponzi scheme that's going to take their money, steal their ID, burn their dog down and rape their house, i doubt there will be enough public trust in the system.
The description in >>1078702's post sounds the most sound, really. If everything is done in a highly visible manner (maybe even have the counting broadcast live on local tv, ID's are verified but not connected to the ballots, and voters are marked with that ink that doesn't come off, there shouldn't be a way to tamper. Most importantly, it's simple enough that the many eyes watching to verify its integrity know wtf they are looking at and looking for.
Zachary Cooper
This URL needs to be shortened and posted on every sign in my city.
Justin Wright
With election guard, they will be caught for doing so. Hence the name.
From what I understand, all the encrypted votes will be public so that you can run a verifier program to recount them yourself. They are also hoping that many third parties do this verification against the results no it can be trusted.
Michael Gonzalez
Earlier I thought you were shitposting but now I can't tell if you're actually a paid shill or not.
It's possible that all of the records could be messed with in a way that no-one could notice, however, having worked in an electoral office counting votes, let me tell you that there's so much redundancy that it would take a massive oversight on the part of dozens of people to have the numbers messed with at even one location. That said, there are other ways to mess with it, depending on what country you're talking about. People voting without ID (which can be easily fixed but there's no political will for it), falsifying absentee votes, etc. That said, the shortcomings pale in comparison to those of voting machines.
Ethan Price
No, Microsoft is the reason I got laid off from my last company. They changed their contract with us, so we had to downsize. I am a fan of Microsoft Research though.