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This being a hacker forum, would such security measures as you believe in and propose be acceptable in any computing application? In finance? Medicine? Anything really?


This is how the system has worked, oftentimes for decades past.

No, they would not be considered acceptable in a computing application. But in computing, it’s considered acceptable to discriminate against users for the sake of security.

I’m unaware of any major democracy that uses computerized voting with a username, password, and 2FA to replace the traditional ballot box, for obvious UX reasons. (Never mind that computerized results might actually be easier to forge than paper ballots).

Regardless of what is “acceptable” it is a fact that widespread voter fraud using the mechanisms proposed would be detectable.


That's what the ID cards are used for, and have been for decades... Including for voting all over the world.


That’s never how voting has worked in the USA though. The entire idea of even having an ID card is relatively modern.

We’ve had voting for centuries, and done it without ID requirements.

Not sure how ID requirements would work in the several states that have done all-mail-in ballots for decades successfully.




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