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Chill · September 19, 2022 at 12:42 PM

Safe, if you use it ethically.

ollistatham · September 20, 2022 at 5:32 AM

Safe, also it you don't use it ethically 😎

kanunanon · September 20, 2022 at 11:44 AM

(September 15, 2022, 11:21 PM)jkljkljkl13 Wrote: Is the electronic voting machine safe?

yes, in an OT offline closed system yes. but why would you go there?
in my opinion the only real vote is direct democratic vote that is NOT SECRET.
I vote, and I can check my vote during and after polls + centralized data.
Without a system like this in place, whenever you cast a vote and bin it, you can never now how it was COUNTED.

so again, electronic vote, should come as an OT, as a centralized system that oversees the votes as they are counted and making information publicly display at all times - safe
any other vote system be it electronic, crypted, casted in bin - flawed, unsafe, easy to corrupt, unreliable.

Zork · September 20, 2022 at 2:50 PM

Safe? As in not causing you harm?

I may have been living under a rock, but what countries in the world are using these machines in their elections?

I would not trust a machine to do something as sensitive and important as electing government officials.

neontoky0 · September 20, 2022 at 5:50 PM

No one thing in this world in this world. Especially linked with politics.

19689p · September 20, 2022 at 5:55 PM

Far safer than paper voting. Paper can be staged and easy to manipulate. Besides, if everything else is going paperless, why not voting?

nbit · September 20, 2022 at 6:01 PM

(September 20, 2022, 05:55 PM)19689p Wrote: Far safer than paper voting. Paper can be staged and easy to manipulate. Besides, if everything else is going paperless, why not voting?

transition from paper to electronic needs to take place but paper maybe easier to manipulate but electronic opens to more ways of attack i guess depends how you look at it

kanunanon · September 21, 2022 at 11:41 AM

(September 20, 2022, 02:50 PM)Zork Wrote: Safe? As in not causing you harm?

I may have been living under a rock, but what countries in the world are using these machines in their elections?

I would not trust a machine to do something as sensitive and important as electing government officials.

19689p · September 21, 2022 at 12:52 PM

(September 20, 2022, 06:01 PM)nbit Wrote:
(September 20, 2022, 05:55 PM)19689p Wrote: Far safer than paper voting. Paper can be staged and easy to manipulate. Besides, if everything else is going paperless, why not voting?

transition from paper to electronic needs to take place but paper maybe easier to manipulate but electronic opens to more ways of attack i guess depends how you look at it

Yeah, everything in life has its fair share of risk. You weigh the options and choose

Zork · September 21, 2022 at 3:33 PM

(September 21, 2022, 12:52 PM)19689p Wrote:
(September 20, 2022, 06:01 PM)nbit Wrote:
(September 20, 2022, 05:55 PM)19689p Wrote: Far safer than paper voting. Paper can be staged and easy to manipulate. Besides, if everything else is going paperless, why not voting?

transition from paper to electronic needs to take place but paper maybe easier to manipulate but electronic opens to more ways of attack i guess depends how you look at it

Yeah, everything in life has its fair share of risk. You weigh the options and choose

True that. I was surprised to see that there are about 30 countries in the world already using some type of machine for electronic voting.