Does anyone care about spelling in forums anymore? I still remember when intentional misspelling was a meme.

yeah i just have to correct myself lol habit

In other news, I had some videos queued up and saw Tim's video on Minds. Is anyone on it and have an opinion?

yeah im on minds

if it was more active id use it more

i just have it to possibly promote my music stuff if it picks up more

also id be keen to see people on here's opinions on teh possibility of voting online

i mean personally i dont see it being possible now even with our technology just because of the amount of traffic theyd have to have master teir servers for them not to crash

and if one does crash does that void all those votes or teh election as a whole??

It's too dangerous for major issues in my opinion.

Too easy to potentially manipulate.

And if there's anything of value at stake, interested parties WILL find a way to compromise the process.

At the very least, in person voting is a small barrier to some forms of manipulation.

yeah indeed

You could make a similar argument for voting by mail, but that's got a bit more control involved because ballots are usually mailed by the sec. of state, which helps limit potential abuse.

Voting online is a horrible idea

Voting by mail is even worse

I suggest sticking to electronic ballot machines

They have the least chance of being compromised

And can be physically guarded

Personally, I think most US elections are too easy to vote in already. And there are districts where the number of registered votes exceeds the number of residents already.

One proposal I've seen is to mandate that electronic voting machines require physical tickets as a record.

Which seems like a good idea to me.

And when the potential to manipulate elections presents itself, people will manipulate them. Heck, 4Chan manipulates online polls just because it can.

The benefits are quite good for voting online. But yes, worries of compromise are pretty major.

Also, also you really shouldnt conflate 'online polls'

with the security likely involved in a election.

You'd probably have to sign in with a government account, or social security number

It wouldnt be 'easy' to compromise

But its more plausible for mass fraud to happen that way then when voting with ballots

Think about how many dead people will be voting

SSN would be very easy to compromise, IMO. In the US we don't have government IDs beyond that either.

I've seen government security. I wouldn't trust it to get a ballot to everyone who needs it and still be robust enough to not be compromised by some intelligence service somewhere.

If voting was done online

Offense > defense.

"Oh no the dead people"
Sure it might happen more, but its quite rare as is.

Also

It's rare because we don't vote online ya fag

The most secure way i can think of, having novice knowledge of these sorts of things

Is to hand out physical items (Some kind of card) every year

To every citizen

With a very long string of numbers on it or something

It's not as rare as you think.