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A Secure and Verifiable Voting System
meese writes "The cryptographer David Chaum, through discussion with top cryptographers such as Ron Rivest, has designed a secure and verifiable voting system. One of the goals of his design is that anyone can verify that votes were tabulated correctly. It's good to see real security/crypto people working on this problem. They also have a press release."
No. No it's not. Not at all. This is an appalling, fucked-halfway-to-the-moon idea that I would, if anything, be more upset to see implimented than the Diebold system.
Your reciept can safely be shown to anyone for checking, such as various political, governmental...
AHHHHH! AHHHHH! Holy God! How do you not see the problem here? How the hell did he write that phrase in a positive tone? Christ, David Chaum, how the hell did you reach adulthood without... hell, I think this actually suggests negative common sense.
Telling your government who you voted for defeats the entire purpose of voting.
Once more, telling your government who you voted for defeats the entire purpose of voting.
In case you didn't catch that, telling your fucking government who you fucking voted for defeats the entire fucking purpose of voting.
Go buy a middle school social studies book and don't design any more voting systems until you've read the entire fucking chapter devoted to the importance of secret fucking ballots.
Jesus God our civilization is doomed.