On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:34 PM, Jonathan Lundell wrote:
On Jan 15, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Kathy Dopp wrote:
Imagine sending all your ballots nationwide to DC for manual counting
to check the outcome of a Presidential election. We'll simply let the
GW administration, for instance, count the results in his own IRV
election!
That's something of a non sequitur. Anyone with all the ballot
files (every state, for example, or anyone else) could do the count.
and, in fact, it can be decentralized to the extent it is now. each
state could have their central place, and in turn, each county, each
precinct. the entire tree could be a public record on the internet
that has links to child nodes or parent node. with 3 credible
candidates there are 9 piles to have to maintain. each precinct
sorts the ballots into one of 9 piles and counts it and puts the 9
numbers up in this public place on the web. everyone can check their
own node to see that it isn't misreported. i do not see why,
physically, it would be more vulnerable to attack by the government
in power that what is presently the case. it's a factor of 9/2 more
numbers to keep secure with that ranked ballot.
each state, each little government would be responsible to confirm
their precinct totals on the map and everybody gets to look at it.
what's particularly insecure about that?
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