I feel for all of those displaced by the storm but on a technical level voting via email is a terrible, terrible idea. We've been putting the proverbial lipstick on a pig adding more and more on...
I feel for all of those displaced by the storm but on a technical level voting via email is a terrible, terrible idea. We've been putting the proverbial lipstick on a pig adding more and more on top of SMTP- first SPF, then DKIM and now DMARC. Even when configured properly (and doubtful at this level of government) this is still an awful idea. The only way to do digital voting "right" would be to have a Smartcard/PKI infrastructure like Estonia, and even that isn't perfect. Going to be following this closely as I think legal precedent is bound to be set here eventually.
I just learned about all of these from setting up my ProtonMail account. I wonder how much optimization we can do at the paper level, though. Why not hire some efficiency experts and improve...
first SPF, then DKIM and now DMARC
I just learned about all of these from setting up my ProtonMail account.
I wonder how much optimization we can do at the paper level, though. Why not hire some efficiency experts and improve existing systems without migrating to computer-counted votes?
All of this misses the fact that by Florida law (and most other states), a ballot is supposed to be both secret and anonymous, its contents visible only to trusted (and presumably non-partisan)...
All of this misses the fact that by Florida law (and most other states), a ballot is supposed to be both secret and anonymous, its contents visible only to trusted (and presumably non-partisan) counting mechanisms, with an independent method of voter verification.
I can't imagine any verifiable means of voting by e-mail that both hides the ballot contents and anonymizes the sender, or provides protection against multiple votes by the same person.
Doesn't sound like the state government is even going to do anything about it, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. And with the general level of hypocrisy from the right, do you really think they're...
"The Florida Department of State has received reports that the Bay County Supervisor of Elections allowed some voters to return their ballots via email and fax," she wrote. "Supervisors of elections are independently elected constitutional officers and it is each supervisors' responsibility to adhere to the law at all times."
Doesn't sound like the state government is even going to do anything about it, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. And with the general level of hypocrisy from the right, do you really think they're gonna care? Even if they acknowledge it as fraud, they'd probably retort with "150 is way less than 3,000,000. I don't see a problem."
I feel for all of those displaced by the storm but on a technical level voting via email is a terrible, terrible idea. We've been putting the proverbial lipstick on a pig adding more and more on top of SMTP- first SPF, then DKIM and now DMARC. Even when configured properly (and doubtful at this level of government) this is still an awful idea. The only way to do digital voting "right" would be to have a Smartcard/PKI infrastructure like Estonia, and even that isn't perfect. Going to be following this closely as I think legal precedent is bound to be set here eventually.
I just learned about all of these from setting up my ProtonMail account.
I wonder how much optimization we can do at the paper level, though. Why not hire some efficiency experts and improve existing systems without migrating to computer-counted votes?
All of this misses the fact that by Florida law (and most other states), a ballot is supposed to be both secret and anonymous, its contents visible only to trusted (and presumably non-partisan) counting mechanisms, with an independent method of voter verification.
I can't imagine any verifiable means of voting by e-mail that both hides the ballot contents and anonymizes the sender, or provides protection against multiple votes by the same person.
Doesn't sound like the state government is even going to do anything about it, so I wouldn't get your hopes up. And with the general level of hypocrisy from the right, do you really think they're gonna care? Even if they acknowledge it as fraud, they'd probably retort with "150 is way less than 3,000,000. I don't see a problem."