Elections Undecided by Midnight are Void & Preempted by Federal Law – Foster v Love (1997; 9-0 Decision)
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You can have digital voting if it's 100% transparent – from the code, to the servers, to everything done in and around them, to making sure no modem or Internet connection is ever on them.
It'll never happen, though, because people are corrupt for a buck.
Parts could easily happen – for example, put the entire voting code base online – but even then it'd be done in such a half-assed way that it'd have only have the bare minimum code they have, additional libraries that aren't necessary, and overly complicated, and lack all documentation what so ever.
But could it be done? Sure. And it'd not be difficult to do and do it right. But, again, corrupt people in any stage of the process, just like mail in and paper voting, though...
The original ballot need to be human readable and available online ----- no barcode crap.
I agree with everything you’ve stated, but you have tech knowledge as a gatekeeper. My thought is vote by fingerprint and photo - digital is fine, with no person in charge of more then 100 votes. A big hurdle is the right to privacy, but I think with how our privacy is already violated at all levels - it’s necessity is being used as a way to subvert the peoples will. And should our views be private? I think integrity is not having a private view, a person can be consistent and brave and public - so many connundrums.
There will always be some skill that others lack being a gatekeeper. I don't think tech knowledge is the problem; we have just as many conservatives and centrists as the left does that can parse code and spot irregularities.
What is a problem with digital voting is still reliant on accountability. Sure, you can make the code open source and let anyone see it -- but you still open the path to exploitation because without accountability and oversight from all involved parties as well as the public, who's to say that is even the code being used?
Further, if caught -- as they've been caught many times -- if no one actually prosecutes, hears and rules on the case with harsh penalties for those who break the law and trust of the citizenry, then there is also nothing to stop them from using different code anyway.
If voting fraud – in any form – was held in as high regard as it should be (a form of treason, IMO), then if the consequences matched the crime... we'd have a lot less people involved.
Right now, there's slaps on wrists. They more to do the wrong (ie, money) than the crime they're committing.
I'm honestly not even seeing wrists get slapped for these transgressions, haha.