ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
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ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
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Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#2It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#3> The ElectionGuard SDK will be available through GitHub beginning this summer. We encourage the election technology community to begin building offerings based on this technology and expect early prototypes using ElectionGuard will be ready for piloting during the 2020 elections in the United States, with significant deployments for subsequent election cycles.
Where is the "we invite interested developers and groups to audit this code and try to build exploits" stage?
> recently received $10 million in funding from DARPA to build a demonstration voting system
and maybe with a bounty reward program?
Then again, maybe because this is more of a reference implementation designed to be incorporated into other products (MIT license) maybe the only thing that matters is how the final implementation is done?
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#4It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
100% agree.
If automation is needed, use scantron technology (where you fill in bubbles on actual paper), which can be manually audited if necessary.
No firewalls, phishing, spectres or meltdowns.
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#5It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
I think it actually is a popular opinion here, and in general, among people that write software and/or have a basic understanding of encryption.
Ever tried to get a non-technical person to use any kind of non-"automatic" encryption (eg, anything they have to directly interact with, as opposed to something like HTTPS)? Now imagine that but include people that can barely use their phone/computer.
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#6It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
Care to explain why you think pen and paper is the best solution?
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#7It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
100% agree. If automation is needed, use scantron technology (where you fill in bubbles on actual paper), which can be manually audited if necessary. No firewalls, phishing, spectres or meltdowns.
The Hanging Chad 2.0
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#8It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
Are forgetting the dumpster fire of 2000? If votes can get invalided because of a hanging chad, what hope would a bubble not being filled out completely have?
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#9It may not be a popular opinion around here, but the best election guard is doing them with pen & paper.
https://xkcd.com/2030/
Best part is the alt text though...
"There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired."
Re: ElectionGuard – A free open-source voting SDK
#10Cool use of Hom encryption, but does nothing about disenfranchisement.