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Tech was supposed to improve caucuses. Instead, it may have doomed them

8 comments

  1. [2]
    drannex
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    Caucuses have been on deaths doorstep for awhile, and every security expert talks about how horrific digital voting is, and will be for a longtime (as pointed out by @vorotato). They take far too...

    Caucuses have been on deaths doorstep for awhile, and every security expert talks about how horrific digital voting is, and will be for a longtime (as pointed out by @vorotato).

    They take far too much time, aren't representative, hard to understand, and just are not efficient and can lead to a tonne of misinformation during the event.

    Take the best aspects of the popular vote, of caucuses, and you get ranked-choice voting. Easy, concise, efficient.

    10 votes
    1. vorotato
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      Agreed. Ranked-choice gives voters the same amount of say as a caucus would, without cutting out people who lost their legs.

      Agreed. Ranked-choice gives voters the same amount of say as a caucus would, without cutting out people who lost their legs.

      8 votes
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    vorotato
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    Of course security experts knowledgeable about the subject disagreed that tech should play a role in voting.

    Of course security experts knowledgeable about the subject disagreed that tech should play a role in voting.

    5 votes
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      Litmus2336
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      I don't know any real developers who think tech should play a role. Maybe on Hacker News...

      I don't know any real developers who think tech should play a role. Maybe on Hacker News...

      5 votes
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        vorotato
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        Agreed, I'm not sure if it was clear but that is what I was trying to say.

        Agreed, I'm not sure if it was clear but that is what I was trying to say.

        3 votes
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          Litmus2336
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          Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you - just stating that even most developers weren't keen on the idea - and we're normally gung ho on this sort of thing.

          Yeah, I wasn't disagreeing with you - just stating that even most developers weren't keen on the idea - and we're normally gung ho on this sort of thing.

          4 votes
          1. vorotato
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            Ah yeah very true, makes sense 😊

            Ah yeah very true, makes sense 😊