Here's what we learned over the past 10 days of fact-finding hearings, which ended Friday and included testimony from politicians, bureaucrats and representatives from several intelligence and security agencies:
Is [triple-counted paper ballots] a prevalent concept in Canada?
Yeah, it is. Because it works really well.
The way I see it cryptography researchers already figured out the math to make electronic voting safer than paper
No, it’s not. And the math isn’t the problem. Our paper elections have scrutiny like open-source code, and voting machine code does not. Issues are spotted at vastly different rates, and not how you’d think without understanding the workings of both.
Also it’s far, far less expensive to set up a polling station. We can do it in a morning, run an election all day - one day - and then shut it down after the count and we’re out of there.
I see. Thanks for sharing. I come from a place that uses electronic voting without any major issues so from my point of view this reluctance is a bit of a mystery. But now at least I know the arguments that float around the topic.
Yeah, it is. Because it works really well.
No, it’s not. And the math isn’t the problem. Our paper elections have scrutiny like open-source code, and voting machine code does not. Issues are spotted at vastly different rates, and not how you’d think without understanding the workings of both.
Also it’s far, far less expensive to set up a polling station. We can do it in a morning, run an election all day - one day - and then shut it down after the count and we’re out of there.
I see. Thanks for sharing. I come from a place that uses electronic voting without any major issues so from my point of view this reluctance is a bit of a mystery. But now at least I know the arguments that float around the topic.