My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
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My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
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Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#2I like how he went into real detail. I had signed up to be a poll worker in Alameda County, California but they had more than enough volunteers so I didn't get a chance to get called up myself and see how things happen.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
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Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#4While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
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#5While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
> Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
It is! Until you try to secure it. Then it isn't.
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#6While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
I worry about online voting not being transparent enough
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#7While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
It’s trading one set of problems for an entirely different (and far scarier, IMO) set of problems.
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#8I am glad that the author didn't force election authority to use plan9 from outer space.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#9While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
I used to be in your camp, but ultimately I think the decentralization and heterogeneity of the election processes provides a non-trivial layer of "security by obfuscation". In other words, if we streamline the process too well, we'll find ourselves with a system with a handful of highly vulnerable points of failure.
I would much prefer a seemingly archaic system that, at the cost of annoyances and delays, at least provides us with a reasonable sense of conviction that the results are accurate.
Re: My experience as a poll worker in Pennsylvania
#10While reading this I got a sense that all of these anachronistic processes would not exist if voting would be moved online. So many of the contentious issues we see here (mail-in ballots arriving late, machines not printing receipts, etc..) would simply not exist. Online voting seems like such a simpler approach.
If you think IoT is bad when it comes to security, imagine what will happen when IoT is applied to voting.
Insecure and hackable voting machines were already a problem more than a decade ago, and they're still a problem today.