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So, more voting machine hacking shenanigans at DEFCON. All of which misses the point completely.
Elections and democracy are tools for legitimacy, not for governance. By this I mean that governing and deciding stuff using the tools of democracy is objectively suboptimal, to say the least. Benevolent dictatorships or technocracies are both much more efficient and make potentially much better decisions depending on the people involved (and their incentives).
What the democratic processes _do_ provide, however, is legitimacy in the eyes of all but a small proportion of the population, and thus you should focus on keeping that intact. _Even if_ the e-voting machines were uncrackable bastions of cryptographic excellence, the fact that their internal processes are black boxes for 99% of the population means that their legitimacy would be questionable.
If you want to help democracy, make the processes simple and transparent, and help pay for them to be so.
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@pettter @iancbell Most of the work is done by political volunteers, so I doubt there is much of a redistribution factor.
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@1iceloops123 @pettter @iancbell There isn't one single form of e-voting. I feel the point about valid votes is a strong one. Also that it enables ranked voting better than paper does.
Ultimately, for auditable records, a paper should come out, a physical item that can be accounted for.
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@pettter I'll have to verify my claim then.
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