Readit NewsAreibman commented on Public trust demands open-source voting systems voting.works/news/public-... · Posted by u/philips
Each polling station should have representatives from multiple parties as well as independent observers.
> how can a constituent know with absolute certainty that their vote was counted
The representative of your party plus independent observer said all votes at your polling station were counted. You know both those community members and know them to be generally honorable. Ergo your vote was counted.
> every voter in the system was legal
None of the observers at the polling station, or the station head claimed any illegal person voted.
> the final tally was authentic
The observers all signed as witnesses on the final tally.
This is not the "system. it is humans you know who are telling you what they saw. If you can't trust other humans at their word, democracy cannot fundamentally work.
To rephrase: "You should trust political volunteers."
Surely we could do better? Testimony doesn't assuage my concerns that the process may not be tamper proof.
Areibman commented on Public trust demands open-source voting systems voting.works/news/public-... · Posted by u/philips
From a process perspective, how can a constituent know with absolute certainty that their vote was counted, every voter in the system was legal, and the final tally was authentic? Especially when there's no way to even audit what you voted for after the fact?
Every time I try to get to the bottom of this, it always boils down to "trust the system" which makes me uneasy.
"Vibe coding" implies it's newbies throwing prompts and hoping some of them stick.
For the experienced lot of us, I've heard many call it "hyper engineering"
To me, Python's best feature is the ability to quickly experiment without a second thought. Conda is nice since it keeps everything installed globally so I can just run `python` or iPython/Jupyter anywhere and know I won't have to reinstall everything every single time.