On Tue, 2024-07-16 at 11:01 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > Never have our electoral processes asked for ID. They just ask your > name and address, and cross you off a printed list. And I agree that > it's a stunningly stupid way to run it. Also, our elections are > *all* > done by filling in a paper ballot slip, no technology at all. Then > labouriously manually counted. It's very primitive. >
I disagree. I've worked on election systems and what people tend to forget is that the most important property is to ensure that the electorate will accept the result. The manual system used in the UK is highly distributed, completely visible and easily checked. It's also very fast and instances of actual fraud (personation or double voting) are minimal. [Granted, this is a First Past the Post system so the count is easy. Under PR (as in Ireland or Australia) the count can be complex and last for days, and in the US you tend to have multiple races running simultaneously and often on the same ballot paper, which also complicates things.] My point is that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to verification. It depends on the context. poc -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
