I know this fries the brains of my security colleagues involved in election security, but how can you see how much voter disenfranchisement exists and *not* think that the greatest democratic benefit would be from making voting easier? I believe secure mobile voting is possible.
What's the specific attack you're thinking of (e.g. malicious app in the store, chrome exploit, etc)? I 100% believe attacks at a similar scale to attacks on ballot boxes is possible.
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"Hi I'm John Smith from the Bernie Sanders campaign. If you'd like to support Bernie, please install this app that helps you find your polling place on Super Tuesday!" Imagine this on a robocall.
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Also works without the mobile component no? "E.g. Please send your mail in ballot to this address", seems not as bad, because we can take down the bad app.
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It's really not attacks I'm worried about, it's incompetence. Iowa couldn't even pull off an app-based *caucus* for 170k people, but we're supposed to take it on face value that some future contractor will successfully do this for 150 million?
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We get incompetence with ballot boxes too, no? Where does the 150 million figure come from, you're already imagining a straw man implementation, I suspect. We can imagine a straw man nation-wide implementation of ballot boxes that is also bad at scale, no?
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I fight enough battles in security that I don't need another one, but I also believe this.
