Jyek

But then you have the issue of voter retaliation and discrimination. That already happens in certain places in this country if someone even thinks you vote a certain way. If there was a reliable way to find out who someone else voted for in the most recent election, there would be huge social implications.

What if you lose a job because of the way you voted? An employer would not have to disclose that as the reason or any reason at all. Most states are employ at will states where you can be hired or fired for any reason at all with a handful of exceptions. And even with those exceptions, it is very very difficult to prove if those exceptions have been broken.

Even if you could make a perfect digital system through encryption and keys and further complexities, to the layman this is effectively a magic black box that they have to trust does the job. If you can't explain it simply to that layman without saying "trust me bro", it doesn't fix the primary problem we currently have with our voting system, the lack of trust in the system.

My point was not that these examples are issues to be concerned with in a voting system. Instead I was pointing out that computers fail at counting all the time. It's also not even my full argument. You dissected one portion of my response and still missed the point I was making.

That's awesome for Brazil. They discovered a perfect flawless man made system. I completely believe it is entirely tamper proof. It's much easier to change whole datasets than to edit enough paper ballots to make a difference in a vote where many millions of people have submitted paper votes. Ctrl+a, del.... Goodbye data. Not that it's possible to do in the Brazilian system. But it certainly is possible in many databases...

Then why don't you create that system?

And then proceed to convince every American that it is good and reliable and will work because it only takes a vocal few to stir question about it. And it only takes a single person finding a small flaw that can probably skew results. And that one flaw that allows someone smarter than you or I, has the power to throw question into our already shaky political system. And you as the producer of the system are entirely liable.

We are already fighting about trust in our voting system, to add the complexity of computerized systems is not going to sway the vast majority of people.

You can't 'miscount' a digital vote.

Yes you absolutely can. Look up flipped bits, look up rounding errors. Look up lossy data. Look up bit overflow. There are many many ways computers miscount things. Hell, many calculators have incongruent output to each other because they do math in a slightly different system.

Because there is no way to prove without a shadow of a doubt that any digital system is 100% reliable. Are all voting machines completely tamper proof? Running unique code that cannot be run elsewhere, and is 100% open source such that the source can be viewed by anyone without exposing itself to risk that a smart enough bad actor can cause havoc? Do these machines need to be networked? Are all the networks completely identical and have 100% uptime? I could go on for hours about the flaws in software.

The general response is usually something to the effect of "well paper ballots and human counting is also flawed" to which my immediate rebuttal is, humans have to write the code and develop the hardware and if humans are flawed, so to will the code they produce be. Digital voting is just the same human error with more steps. Nearly all of the issues with paper voting are present in digital voting and then some.

TS has always, and I do mean always, been garbage.

There's a few zombies in there. It's like playing wheres waldo

Actually YouTube kinda built in the feature lol. It detects sections of the video most people skip and gives you a button to skip it as well. All right inside the YouTube app.

It's TPLink. Budget networking equipment comes with budget security principles.

Women are you doing this for me to be a good day to be able to get to the house and get the rest of the day off the day of the day and I will be there in a few minutes to get it done before I leave the house.

My predictive text doesn't know what to do with the words "Women are". Maybe because I don't like to make declarations about groups of people? Especially when it's half of the population....

Or maybe it's just that gboard sucks at predictive text.