On Wed, 17 Jul 2024, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Again, OT, but many people who think voting systems are simple haven't actually thought it through (and experienced IT experts are particularly prone to this fallacy), I mean it's just counting isn't it?). The real world problem is not the technology itself, it's persuading people to trust something they can't see, where some actors have a vested interest in telling their supporters that the system is fraudulent or that The Man is trying to manipulate them.
In North dakota, USA, we have paper ballots counted by machine. Some other states have gone all-electonic: There is no real provision for discovering, much less fixing problems. -- Michael henne...@mail.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- _______________________________________________ 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
