The idea of "trust nobody" is probably a wise decision in voting matters. After all, we worry about voter fraud at the individual level (thus the new laws on ID being required to vote) but an electronic system gives a very targeted intervention a much better chance of success.
Comments, observations and thoughts from two bloggers on applied statistics, higher education and epidemiology. Joseph is an associate professor. Mark is a professional statistician and former math teacher.
Friday, January 30, 2015
Electronic voting
Another problem with single point of failure solutions (and another video from the same author, who seems to be paranoid about trusting people as a personal vocation):
The idea of "trust nobody" is probably a wise decision in voting matters. After all, we worry about voter fraud at the individual level (thus the new laws on ID being required to vote) but an electronic system gives a very targeted intervention a much better chance of success.
The idea of "trust nobody" is probably a wise decision in voting matters. After all, we worry about voter fraud at the individual level (thus the new laws on ID being required to vote) but an electronic system gives a very targeted intervention a much better chance of success.
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