Posted on 09/26/2018 10:03:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
Obviously a reason this is “secret” and hidden.
Just wait until the next step - Google, Apple, facebook, twitter, et. al. will “make it even easier to vote with your smartphone.”
They’ll add “fact checks” about every option on the ballot (from “trusted fact checkers”) and a “vote like me” to automatically check everyone who “I” should vote for. Then the ability to let your phone “vote like me” every election without even needing to run the app or see the ballot or even know an election is today - turn the phone on and google will submit your votes. And “for privacy reasons” they won’t be able to even show you who you voted for (a boss could demand you show them so it’s dangerous to show who you/google voted for).
My skeptical mind thinks exactly that.
It is like the “Motor Voter Law” passed in the Clinton administration.
It wasn’t well known except to people like us who may have followed it...two of the people behind that law were Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven (of Cloward-Piven infamy) two people who are revered by the radical Left.
There is a picture of them beaming proudly at the signing ceremony.
My feeling is that anything people like that are for...I am against in principle. And I view this the same way, the fact that I cannot find out who was really behind it makes me suspicious.
Grr. How right you are. This stuff makes my blood boil.
You are exactly right.
I think it is ironic that Mueller is wasting untold dollars and time trying to “prove” collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, while West Virginia is allowing voting by smart phone. If that isn’t open to hacking by bad actors from, oh, say, Russia, what is?
As someone who spent 35+ years in IT, it has always been my feeling that not all technologies are advances in living. I’m also beginning to understand why my uncle, who worked on some top secret aircraft during his career in the 50’s through the 80’s, became a total Luddite upon his retirement. No cable, no cell phones, nothing! Most of the music he listened to was on old vinyl records or reel-to-reel tapes. Only when it became almost impossible to find vinyl records did he start using CDs.
He isn't trying to “prove” collusion, he's trying to find something he can hang on Trump to get him to resign..............
Demonrats are seriously scared.
Considering the problems in getting ballots TO the military as well as FROM the military, especially in combat zones, this idea makes sense so long as security can be assured.
You were lucky, you got to vote when you were in. I had to wait over a year after I finished my 2 yr. active duty before I was allowed to vote.
I’m a software architect.
There’s merit to this concept, although I have my reservations as I’d like to see the open source community fully vet this application.
I’ve considered Blockchain being used for voting. That part of it isn’t my concern, it does do exactly what is claimed - you can’t fake the “transaction ledger” after something is recorded into it. The concern is the validation of the user making the vote via face recognition - I’m weary of the use of biometrics in general. If somebody gets a hold of your digital signature and can spoof it into an application or system, I’m not sure what you’re supposed to do about it - you can’t change your signature.
So if something shows up saying you paid for something by face verification and you know you didn’t make the purchase, what recourse do I have? At least with a credit card I can cancel it and get a new one.
I would not be surprised if more people vote in WV this November that even live in WV!.....................
Then watch out FRiend, 'cause us Mountaineers are gonna take over the WHOLE F#$@%& WORLD!!!!!
Thanks for that. I’m too dumb for that to mean anything to me, but if it pushes those that DO know to discuss it (rather than some of the idiocy I’ve seen posted on this and other threads) all the better.
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LOL, they obviously didn’t want YOU to vote!
In my squadron, IIRC, our senior enlisted leadership were tasked with giving us the information, having us fill out the forms, and send them on their way. I don’t recall the mechanics, it was so long ago, but I do remember voting in the 1976 and 1978 elections that way.
You're right, they didn't. Nobody wanted me to vote. I had to wait 'til after my 21st birthday.
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