More importantly though ... no one gets to credibly claim that the outcome is legitimate. It’s crazy not to question the validity of unauditable elections that depart unexpectedly from exit polls.https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1113289863976169473 …
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Replying to @colmmacc
No. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Sometimes such evidence exists. Much more often it does not.
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Replying to @mattblaze
Nope! That’s a terrible inversion of obligation. Elections are supposed to provide neutral and credible evidence of the result, precisely because partisans are natural to disbelieve a loss.
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Replying to @colmmacc
So, you advise everyone not to recognize any elections as valid? Uh huh.
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Replying to @mattblaze
Yes, of course, and I would hope that any responsible technologist would do the same. Elections without evidence are not valid. That was a key argument in our defeats of unauditable e-voting in both Ireland and the Netherlands.
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Replying to @colmmacc @mattblaze
You phrase your point as if to mock, and cast my point as akin to some kind of sovereign citizenry bullshit. Please don't engage in that kind of bad faith.
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Replying to @colmmacc
No. I think you said something absolutely ridiculous.
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If we ran elections by tossing coins, no-one would consider an election where only one person gets to see the actual coin-toss valid. But we'd have no evidence it wasn't tails! That's the ridiculous framing to begin with.
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Replying to @colmmacc @mattblaze
That’s a good analogy. There can’t be any “black box” systems in a functional democracy. Audits need to be standard.
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