6th September 2020, 1:41 PM
There are those suggesting that instead of keeping the US postal service around and doing mail in ballots, we should "just go digital". Computer security experts around the globe are quick to point out how disasterous that is based on the unique operation and challenges of elections in particular.
Paper ballots backed by census data provided to the friendly geriatrics running your polling place are still the best security method we have, and the security ensured by this system is naturally inherited by mail-in ballots.
Paper ballots backed by census data provided to the friendly geriatrics running your polling place are still the best security method we have, and the security ensured by this system is naturally inherited by mail-in ballots.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)