• Geometrinen_GepardiEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Heck, even electronic voting systems in the US is closed-source.

    How can elections even be trusted to be fair in that case?

    • John Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      142·
      2 months ago

      Simply, you can’t. I’m personally all for an open source alternative for electronic voting. I can bank online, but not vote online. I’d trust an open source online voting platform more than I’d trust poll workers to not skew some votes. I’d also like to be able to track my vote and ensure it was cast for the person I voted for.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        you can’t have secret ballot and have a secure, auditible online vote. One of the problems of social media is it has created enemy lists for authoritarian states.

        • milicent_bystandr@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          You kind of can. Depends how fully auditable you want, but you can have cryptographically anonymized entries, that (I believe?) could even allow the original voter to track their vote, without enabling anyone else to track the vote back to the voter.

          It’s a different project, but GNU Taler have some interesting work on anonymized but not forgeable money transactions.

          • CapeWearingAeroplaneEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            The issue with online voting, no matter what you do, is that someone can force you under threat of violence to vote for a specific candidate, and watch to make sure you do it. Complete privacy in the voting booth is paramount to ensuring that everyone can vote freely.

      • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Biggest vulnreability for online voting stands behind voter

    • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      2 months ago

      I think we’re well past the open/closed discussion when hackers have repeatedly shown how easy it is to compromise the voting machines.

      We know they’re trash, it’s not theory.

    • uis@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      By claiming that everyone who do not trust is communist trumpist