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As I recently said to a friend: "I fucking hate being right."

And he said "I fucking hate you being right."

(he was never in disagreement, he just still had a sliver of hope)

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[-] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It’s more hidden but more of a problem now, actually.

But it’s such a complicated multi faceted issue with things that vary state by state it’s hard to do coverage without literally writing pages and pages. And very few people know all the stuff going on.

I will list some of my issues being generic as possible: (edited formatting below)

  • it’s possible to write voting systems which allow one or two people who run the company to skew the results without the rest of the company having a clue. ( this I know by my 40 years of writing software)
  • election voting systems are very complex and can be messed with at over a dozen (literally) different ways, other than #1
  • the code and systems are normally trade secrets
  • the admins are unknown, who has admin keys is a private list. The security here is unknown
  • many states have exit polls done afterwards which are significantly different from the results
  • many states flunk or withhold data for basic tests for ballot stuffing
  • many places give printouts and receipts but no recounts use these, if recounts done at all
  • the general rule of thumb is if it’s too complex to understand how the voting works then it’s not fair voting
  • any electronic voting requires faith and trust to use. This is not how democracy works
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