Well, we are all probably being too hypothetical but still..
The chances are that the tallying isn't centralized either.
Any non-centralized system would have the non-scalable problem of communicating with all others and making a system centralized would be a non-scalable problem in the first place!
Lemme get this right. You are proposing that every voting machine inform every other voting machine the biometrics of the person who has voted?
Otherwise, all you would prevent is a voter voting twice on the same machine. In a country of a billion, I don't see how your approach would be feasible even in a country of a million.
Even if you plan to check this at counting time as against at run time(er.. make that election time;-) ), it still seems to be pretty difficult.
It is some time since i did phy102 or whatever, so be warned!
This *looks* like a normal decay equation which assumes that the number of particles decaying/getting anhiliated at any time is a fraction of those present.
The article says "Since there are fewer muons in an empty space than in solid rock or earth.."
So, if we assume muons are formed when the cosmic rays pass through the walls(which is what the article sasy) and assume that empty space offers lesser resistance to the rays than, say a brick wall(sounds reasonable), there would be lesser muons in empty space than in a wall.
If we pass some rays which lose energy when they hit a muon (which could happen if the muons resonate at this freq), and calculate the energy of the rays when they come out of the other end of the pyramid. If the energy is more than what we expect it to be, then its possible that there is a chamber somewhere inside.
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Well, we are all probably being too hypothetical but still..
The chances are that the tallying isn't centralized either.
Any non-centralized system would have the non-scalable problem of communicating with all others and making a system centralized would be a non-scalable problem in the first place!
Or am I missing something here?
Lemme get this right. You are proposing that every voting machine inform every other voting machine the biometrics of the person who has voted?
;-) ), it still seems to be pretty difficult.
Otherwise, all you would prevent is a voter voting twice on the same machine. In a country of a billion, I don't see how your approach would be feasible even in a country of a million.
Even if you plan to check this at counting time as against at run time(er.. make that election time
Yup! ;-)
Its not similar, its the same! This time a different news agency (CNN) is reporting it. So much for ``Breaking News"
This *looks* like a normal decay equation which assumes that the number of particles decaying/getting anhiliated at any time is a fraction of those present.
The article says "Since there are fewer muons in an empty space than in solid rock or earth.."
So, if we assume muons are formed when the cosmic rays pass through the walls(which is what the article sasy) and assume that empty space offers lesser resistance to the rays than, say a brick wall(sounds reasonable), there would be lesser muons in empty space than in a wall.
If we pass some rays which lose energy when they hit a muon (which could happen if the muons resonate at this freq), and calculate the energy of the rays when they come out of the other end of the pyramid. If the energy is more than what we expect it to be, then its possible that there is a chamber somewhere inside.
Its amazing how research these days has such a superb sense of timing.