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    1. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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      This is a rare bad take from @xkcdComic. E-voting software is often terrible, but that's because the engineers who take it on have to be ignorant of the fundamental impossibility of trustworthy electronic counting. Perfect code, or crypto, won't help. https://m.xkcd.com/2030/ pic.twitter.com/IpiR1Krc6I

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    2. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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      It's disturbingly simple: if you press a button or screen to vote, and can't literally see an immutable, tamper-evident, record of that vote that will actually be counted, then you can't know that something else was recorded. This is why paper and ballot boxes matter.

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    3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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      You can prove the code correct, you can use flawless cryptography, but how do you know that's what's running? For blockchain or Chaum style systems, with proof-of-vote, how do you avoid coercion and vote-selling?

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    4. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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      What problem is e-voting even trying to fix? It's not hard to count paper ballots, and who cares how long it takes? A good compromise system is electronic vote printers, for better accessibility than pencils, and paper vote scanners with manual re-checks.

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    5. RK‏ @rk_04 8 Aug 2018
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      The unique problem in India was practice of booth capture and fake voting, where bunch of ruling party thugs come into the voting booth and just stamp 100s of votes , electronic voting literally eliminated this

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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      ... until the thugs figure out how to compromise the electronic system!

      10:32 AM - 8 Aug 2018
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        2. RK‏ @rk_04 8 Aug 2018
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          Recommend you to look at the Indian model, for now , this has been the most robust

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        3. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 8 Aug 2018
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          I have studied it extensively, and have been deep into e-voting for over 15 years, and involved in helping 3 different governments abandon/fix it. The Indian model is not secure.

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