• Jyek
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    2 months ago

    That’s awesome for Brazil. They discovered a perfect flawless man made system. I completely believe it is entirely tamper proof. It’s much easier to change whole datasets than to edit enough paper ballots to make a difference in a vote where many millions of people have submitted paper votes. Ctrl+a, del… Goodbye data. Not that it’s possible to do in the Brazilian system. But it certainly is possible in many databases…

    • blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io
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      2 months ago

      That’s why it doesn’t work like that. The voting machines each have their own count and are not connected to anything, not to each other, or a central system.

      At the end of voting day each prints a tally of votes, that is both sent to the central counting, and displayed publicly so that the citizens can cross-verify that the official count is correct.

      And as I said, there are multiple systems to guarantee that individual machines, or batches are not tampered.