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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (222318)	1/10/2022 12:17:22 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355847

Seriously, after the disaster of the count in 2020, the massive corruption caused by a half billion dollars or private money controlling voting operations, the extensive rigging and ultimate theft of a presidential election, do you believe we cannot improve by creating a secure IT-based system? Are you arguing to be arguing, or are you serious? >> Just want to be sure about your position on this. You're OK with someone helping a voter who needs help entering his vote into the computer. Then it follows that you would have to be OK with someone helping a voter fill out his mail-in paper ballot? Is that so? I think first I'd try to figure out why it is only Democrats who seem to need these services. The objective is to eliminate the kinds of one-on-one vote stealing operations that were spread throughout 900 Zuckerberg-funded storefronts in Philly in 2020. But the important question is how frequent the need for these services is and why there is a need. Certainly, what happened in the swing state areas funded by Zuckerberg in 2020 is not necessary or desirable -- it is entirely a vote stealing operation. We should never have that. Ever again. Most people are able to use a cell phone to order from Amazon. I'm quite sure they can handle it. But if not, they simply go to a polling place (which would still exist for a while, although in far fewer numbers) and receive assistance there. This is not complicated. There are edge cases where people are not mobile and they have to be dealt with. Some provision can be made for these people. They can schedule an appointment with a trusted individual to meet onsite with someone who can assist them. Whatever. It is smallish problem. >> You didn't address the question about how the freedom obsessed would take to having to give the government whatever biometric is required when registering to vote. Biometric data is local; it never goes to any agency. Basic cryptography permits endpoints to share only what is essential to a given transaction. Biometrics are not essential; what is essential is that it is know whether a biometric screening occurred and was passed. This is done all over the place: An employee clocking in with his handprint never sees or knows the content of the handprint, and the handprint is not stored along with the time at which the clock in/out operation occurred. All that matters was the handprint was authenticated against the employee file and now the system knows who it is dealing with.