If you write about, administer, or care about elections, this dialogue between @milesobrien3.bsky.social and Prof. Alex Halderman is a MUST listen for a fact-based look at the credibility of the November election. And more importantly, the dire need for election security improvements.
Miles O’Brien@milesobrien3.bsky.social · 2y agoNot a landslide, but too big to rig. A 2024 Election post-mortem with Alex Halderman. milestogo.libsyn.com/episode-38-n...
Direct democracy is a great idea, but the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a terrible idea. It will undermine what election integrity the US has; it’s easily undermined; and it will not provide direct democracy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The National Popular Vote (NPV) Proposal for U.S. Presidential Elections Undermines Election Integrity
National Popular Vote (NPV) Interstate Compact [Koza et al., 2024] attempts to provide direct presidential elections in the U.S. without a constitutional amendm
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If the votes that are counted pass through the internet, it’s internet voting. Internet voting is not trustworthy. arxiv.org/abs/2411.11796
An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways
The recently published "MERGE" protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper...
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