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How much does a scantron machine cost?

Paper ballots weren’t cast and counted under general public observation in the US.

And I mean a ballot stub that is separated at the time it is cast is tied to a voter.

The second paragraph is an assertion. And urban registration drives are heavily funded. Most people who do not vote do not vote because they do not want to vote.

Taiwan and France. Probably most countries: since it is how you would design an election in the obvious way.

> A truly observably fair election is practically impossible if you mean to have any significant number of voters.

Just broadcast the counting live.

Checkout Healthline today. Then do WaybackMachine of Healtine in like 2009.

It is shocking

I don’t think a scantron machine not connected to the Internet would sow distrust. We have seen them in our high schools. And Adversarial observers can validate the results on test samples quite easily.

Which raises the question- why do we use the really awkward, blackbox and sometimes networked machines that we do, manufactured by weird companies rather than whoever makes scantron machines or whatever?

And this isn’t just about “dumb Republicans” or what have you. Here’s Scott Aaronson [1] in 2016:

> For that matter, if Russia or some other power hacked the trivially-hackable electronic voting machines that lack paper trails—machines that something like a third of American voters still used this election—there’s an excellent chance we’d never find out.

“Antivirus on voting machines? You’re doing it wrong.” [2]

The thing that really gets me is, even if you wanted to use machines, you wouldn’t use the weird machines made by shady companies that we do. Different counties would buy standard scantron machines used to grade high school finals off the shelf, and verify it in ways that are obvious to all of us.

[1] https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2957

[2] https://xkcd.com/463/

Well secure and rather indisputably valid elections are a solved problem, and many countries manage it. Identified electors cast ballots on paper counted under recorded and public observation. (I think a scantron would be fine, too).

It is just that we choose not to do this. A provably convincing election isn’t actually some hard, unsolved problem. (And yes- if you mention zero knowledge proofs in your story of why the election is safe, people will look askance because an observably valid election is a solved problem, and many countries manage it)

Even putting the identity politics bit of it aside, it is just unnecessarily hostile, and comes across as such if you haven't acclimated yourself to things like this already. Plus a lot of it, as near all of it that actually matters, goes without saying.

I would be interested in knowing whether there are real instances that having a code like this one resulted in a better open source product as an innate feature of the code.

He goes out of his way to mention something peculiar despite its non-relevance to the technical features of the project, and does so again on a Medium post introducing the fork. In fact the only interesting said at all is about the code.

(As to DRH's Code of Ethics... well, the product speaks for itself.)

That is a lot of effort to complain about SQlite's Code of Conduct.

Mass advertising has a big tragedy of the commons problem. Attention is limited, and every mass ad, digital or otherwise, takes attention away from any other mass ad. (I distinguish mass ads from advertisements for cigars in Cigar Magazine).

The real thing to do would be leveraging your owned home to buy stocks to bypass the limit on the mortgage interest deduction. (You have to do it this way - the IRS doesn't care that money is fungible)

You can always do "username+<servicename>@gmail.com" for this purpose. Doesn't help with privacy but tells you which service is leaking addresses.