Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

[@LeopoldRamutsamaya]

That's the good thing about Africa, our election results are known before we even go to the polls so we don't have to worry about all of this...

[@peter-peterpumpkineater4982]

Why vote when your honourable dictators do it for you

[@gileee]

Lmao. Same here in Easter Europe. We have voting, but every so often they find a truck full of valid voting tickets somewhere in a ditch. Also, people that died decades ago still voting.

[@pflernak]

I dont care who gets to vote as long as I get to nominate the candidates.

[@TheAudioCGMan]

Ah isn't the internet wonderful

[@klontjespap]

this shouldn't be funny, but i laughed nonetheless.

[@prismarinestars7471]

Imagine going into a voting booth and seeing the Doom title screen.

[@xtdycxtfuv9353]

rip and tear

[@rokkun9815]

Best election ever.

[@Greaust]

the demons have the faces of the candidates

[@oshkiv4684]

@@Greaust who's doom guy?

[@Greaust]

@@oshkiv4684 the guy from Doom

[@NaruShadow]

Tom: "I trust that the device you're watching this video on is completely Malware free" Me: "I'm glad you do because I don't"

[@Kenionatus]

Me every other day: Yes Windows. I absolutely trust that software I just downloaded from a random webpage. Now shut up and run it with elevated privileges.

[@matteoalberghini3816]

If someone has the same problem, use malwarebytes, it will save your device from all standard malwares :)

[@banaroklionrage9536]

@@matteoalberghini3816 the word is "standard", that means only already discovered malware are being found, and new malware gets made all the time, exploting new security holes.

[@ThatFadedAsian]

Any anti-virus software < Tech literacy, Even the most basic of hackers can beat an anti-virus. Anti Virus Programs mostly identify virus from a database of file checksums. If a file has the same checksum as something in the database it's a virus. If not it isn't, even if it is. All you have to do to change the checksums is use a program called an obfuscatetor which adds useless data to the file, which changes the checksum value, then use an existing virus that already exists, and boom you beat pretty much all existing anti-viruses.

[@AndersJackson]

@@ThatFadedAsian well, that is how they used to work (Yes, they still do, but not only). Now day they also analys behaivour of programs. Because of what you said. I uses Linux, so I have no problems with viruses. 😜 (of course not, but it still better then Windows, even though Linux isn't proytected from viruses, especially social viruses or viruses attacking web browsers).

[@mcb187]

At my poling place, they use a touchscreen monitor to display the ballots to you, but that’s it. You still get handed a paper ballot, and you still turn in a paper ballot. All the computer dies is take your input and punch a hole in the right spot on the paper. It then tells you to verify that the correct markings were made. I, as a visually impaired person, very much appreciate this.

[@F-Lambda]

The machines I voted on in California you voted on the machine, but then it printed out a physical receipt of your choices, and that was the ballot that got counted. You then had the opportunity to examine the printout, and if you changed your mind or there was an error you could reject it and it'd be shredded.

[@stale2665]

That's probably the best way to do it. The printed ballots can be easily machine readable, and also easily human readable. You can get the results out to the public really fast, even if you spend days verifying the results afterwards. As long as the margin of error between the machine read result and the human read result remains extremely low, there's no problem.

[@johndododoe1411]

If the machine knows that you are physically impaired it can punch or print different holes that your impaired eyes cannot see . Flipping all the visually impaired votes may only be enough for a closely contested issue, unless combined with other attacks .

[@furtim1]

It is still computer read and counted. The paper ballot could be correct, the reader program just changes the totals in a convincing way.

[@cubing7276]

​@@johndododoe1411you forgot that touch is a thing

[@TaranVH]

I electronically upvoted this.

[@jonaslinter]

Nice to see you here

[@timdeboer7400]

Taran Van Hemert did you use a macro to do so?

[@FergusGriggs]

Or did you...

[@maxwelljames3573]

Are you sure?

[@AccV999]

did you forget the whole anonymity part

[@denissdenisson6823]

One of my favorite things ever is people just wanting to play doom on every concievable device.

[@somerandomnon9161]

Doom on a TI-84 is nice. Personally have a copy of it.

[@FortniteGod-vt7qz]

I've got it on my Samsung smart fridge

[@christianskyppytreba2036]

seems like skyrim is trying to overtake that achievement

[@rabywastaken]

@@somerandomnon9161 I have it on my Ti Nspire, runs great with @234Mhz oc ahah

[@somerandomnon9161]

@@rabywastaken nice dude

[@Chraan]

Honestly, who needs an antivirus if you can just watch this video where Tom Scott himself checks your computer and assures you it's clean

[@pixel-hy4jx]

Tom Scott shall rule the world ahahahah

[@abdullahidrees8134]

@@pixel-hy4jx aHaHa

[@System64MC]

plot twist: the video changes if you have a malware or outdated OS and tells you

[@Mushiii]

thousandth like

[@inanjarif1388]

@@System64MC Like a secret ending in a video game? Damn, now I feel like downloading malware to unlock the ending and get that one last achievement

[@toranine09]

this just makes me think about the story where a flipped bit in a 2003 belgium election count resulted in a candidate receiving over 4000 unexpected votes

[@corrupted4726]

I think it was some malfunction

[@botigamer9011]

@@corrupted4726 Ultimately it was a cosmic ray striking one of the transistors. The error was spotted and corrected

[@wren_.]

@@botigamer9011 there was also another similar event that happened during a super Mario 64 speed run, where a random cosmic ray flipped a bit in the system and caused Mario’s y-coordinate to jump up a bunch. It caused a significantly faster speed run but because it wasn’t intentional I don’t think the run was counted

[@Xnoob545]

4096

[@whyiseverysinglehandletaken2]

​@@wren_.I guess you guys are men of culture as well

[@piguu7226]

Just realised Tom did this in one-take.

[@SunflowerSpotlight]

Respect. 😅

[@milindbordia]

Ironic that you wrote ironic how you write one take in one take in one take

[@firstlast5454]

Is it really one take if i erase my message before posting it??

[@DuckboyMcgee]

Ironic that you wrote ironic that you wrote ironic how you write one take in one take.

[@ErdrickHero]

@@DuckboyMcgee The following statement is true. The previous statement is false.

[@ColCoal]

In 15 years: Tom - "Here is why Quantum voting is an even WORSE idea!"

[@zerokelvinkeyboard1012]

Photon effect could cause your votes to be redshifted or blueshifted! XD

[@franchocou]

You can't duplicate thing in quantum state

[@sergey198]

In 25 years: Tom - "Here is why Skynet voting is the end of the World"

[@damiankaleomontero496]

Well actually quantum encryption solves the problem

[@martinsmouter9321]

@@damiankaleomontero496 if you trust the encryptor and counter. Edit: and quantum encryption breaking doesn't get invented.

[@dangerousnoodle8779]

"I am endorsing dashlane for two reasons; One, they have given me money, obviously" Ah Tom, never change.

[@NimeveasKM]

xDDDD

[@xdev_henry]

Well he’s not getting this ad again 😂

[@crafciak31]

@@xdev_henry I mean, Dashlane had to approve this ad, so...

[@Miku-uw2sl]

@@xdev_henry He is legally required to disclose the fact that it's a paid promotion - the only difference is that he did it in an unsusually informal way in this video

[@hungryweebsg]

He's got me hooked

[@tobenamed9424]

As someone who does poll work in Canada, the paper ballots and all the record keeping we do makes it next to impossible to tamper with the vote. Even as poll supervisor it would be impossible for me to do without getting caught.

[@julessb]

too bad not many canadians vote 😢

[@AApyrofreak]

"I dont know how to do it. It's impossible" - Some dude after 12 min of being explained how it's possible.

[@squish162]

@@AApyrofreakPaper voting. Nothing digital

[@karlingtonbanks898]

@@AApyrofreak can u read?

[@SerunaXI]

Here in America, it doesn't matter if you get caught, if the party that has the most power favors what you do.

[@Hajewil]

Solution: a group kahoot quiz

[@Phatkatmat]

I can see myself already losing.

[@Edgeperor]

Oh boy, I can already imagine the framerate. “Frames per second? I thing you must mean: *seconds per frame.”*

[@TheAmishUpload]

i trust like that

[@Atypical-0]

@@Edgeperor That's a good joke

[@yeller1954]

But kahoot always has a right awnser

[@RGBY-tv4hg]

"If you are techy enough to watch to the end" You underestimate my boredom Mr. Scott

[@meetaverma8372]

Isn't your profile picture from theodd1sout

[@penggao7034]

Meeta Verma I’m not that person, but yes

[@kkTeaz]

@@meetaverma8372 ye

[@four0for]

Or my capacity for procrastination

[@thewanderinggamer1369]

@@meetaverma8372 gee I wonder

[@thecarelessgamer926]

4:58 Rule of programming If you can code on it It can run doom

[@jomialsipi]

People have ran doom on pregnancy tests now.

[@iamjimgroth]

@@jomialsipi not really. Just on a device put inside the casing of a pregnancy test.

[@nottrevorallen]

i will not be happy until i see doom running on the apollo command computer

[@iamjimgroth]

@@nottrevorallen Good luck with that at 2 Mhz. :P

[@impepperspray]

not can, will.

[@mabimabi2952]

My dad has worked when voting was done by paper here in Brazil. He saw how easy it was to manipulate the results. Compared to that, electronic voting is still not only safer but also much more efficient. All the possible problems regarding electronic voting could also happen with paper.

[@fabiosantos1920]

Engraçado, explique o por que dela ser fácil de adulterar, pode usar todos os termos necessários em sua explicação, faço questão de pesquisar para entender seu ponto.

[@astralalchemy9761]

@@fabiosantos1920 acho q vc entendeu errado amigo, ele está defendendo as urnas eletronicas

[@FabioCapela]

@@fabiosantos1920 Se você está se referindo a votos em papel, inúmeras maneiras. A urna pode vir já com votos, o mesário pode marcar cédulas e fazer com que sejam consideradas nulas, pessoas contando votos podem anular votos válidos e transformar votos em branco em válidos, etc. Outra fraude usada até a implementação das urnas eletrônicas era feita por coronéis e traficantes. Eles juntavam os eleitores "cativos" deles, o primeiro ia votar, e ao invés de votar fingia colocar o voto na urna e voltava com a cédula em branco. O traficante pegava essa cédula, preenchia como quisesse, e entregava para o segundo eleitor "cativo", que tinha que depositar a cédula já preenchida e voltar com outra cédula em branco. Esse processo seguia até todo o eleitorado "cativo" ter votado. (Diga-se de passagem, a ditadura militar era campeã de fraudes. Eles roubavam tudo o que podiam na cara dura.) Para quem tem a minha idade, não era raro antes das urnas eletrônicas ver algumas dezenas de matérias nos jornais sobre fraudes encontradas nas eleições. Eu tive até aula na escola sobre como identificar fraudes para poder denunciá-las.

[@a.martins3254]

@@FabioCapela teve casos de urnas encontradas em lixões, riachos que serviam como esgoto...era como as coisas funcionavam naquela época

[@SrMorais]

KKKKKKKKKKKK tão seguro quanto pular num vulcão

[@markjohansen6048]

I've often heard people say, "You trust using the Internet to place orders for expensive merchandise. Why not for voting?" But there are major differences. The company has every incentive to process my order accurately. The people counting votes may or may not want an accurate count. If someone changed my order, either deliberately or by mistake, I'll know something went wrong when I get the wrong merchandise, and I'll complain and demand they fix it. If they count my vote wrong, will I even know? How can you have anonymity and also prove that your vote was miscounted?

[@graywind3277]

If I was purchasing merchandise at prices comparable to the stakes of a general election, I'd be exceptionally wary of how the finances are processed. If I was spending a billion dollars on a painting for example, I'd probably only be willing to do so while in the same room as the painting and the people accepting payment for it. If I could, I'd find a means of physical payment such as gold, if not I'd ensure my trust is well-placed in the bank to cover the amount if something goes awry.

[@heitordiogobraga1234]

Eletronical ballots do not use internet

[@chriswarr641]

@@gallectee6032 that would kill anonymity

[@gallectee6032]

@@chriswarr641 Not if you make it anonymous.

[@ryanfowler3140]

@@gallectee6032 Genius! Now how do we know if the code is ours? How do we know it's actually tied back to our intended result?

[@rewp234]

It's so funny that every time you say "no one does that" it's exactly what the Brazilian system has done for 30 years

[@LucasSoaresy]

Actually not. Tom clearly didn't do any research, this video was based purely on his knowledge about technology, not on actual electronic voting systems.

[@davidsousaRJ]

I was going to say exactly that.

[@MrAmaurygm]

@Danilo The code is not actually open to the general public. Even if it was, there would be the problem of checking if the code is proper on each machine, and also the dubiousness of the code that checks said machines.

[@Rogi1198]

@Danilo Para derrubar uma árvore, você corta o tronco, não os galhos. Da mesma forma, a urna é o menos provável de sofrer um ataque, pois é muito difusa. O principal problema é onde se contabiliza todos os votos. Ainda assim, é muito improvável que haja fraude.

[@RilckG]

@@Rogi1198 improvável 🤨 coff coff

[@Liravin]

10:39 "because they give me money" 10/10 ad

[@GodwynDi]

Went right to them after that to check it out

[@DavidSnul]

I have been a poll worker for elections in Portugal for many years now and I completely agree. Election security is one of the things we should be most conservative about. Here in Portugal, we have to individually count all the ballots we receive before the voting starts, and we must cross-check that by the number of people who have voted, based on the registration rolls, with the number of ballots that have been entered into the ballot box, and the difference must match the number of ballots that remains unused at the end of the day. All the counting is done under the observation of the party delegates and you are forbidden by law to hold any pen or writing instrument while handling the ballots. If there is any discrepancy in any voting table, even something as small as a missing signature or one lost ballot, you get called into court and you have to explain it to the judges.

[@onehairybuddha]

Very similar to the UK, this is the way.

[@intenzityd3181]

@@onehairybuddha Most countries in Europe operate similarly. Europe is far more conservative about protecting electoral legitimacy (it's just you don't get a real choice of who to vote for since they ban any party that isn't controlled by international finance). America is something of an anomaly, in terms of elections they've been a rogue state for decades and I don't think they even pretend to have legitimate elections anymore in places like California.

[@ThatRoma]

"People can be corrupt, or threatened, or incompetent... or all three at the same time" Hello from Belarus...

[@user-xd4sk4pk7h]

Under rated comment

[@I_AM_HYDRAA]

trump

[@sobtrax1846]

hello from poland

[@whobein]

Hello from Brazil

[@neliasoares6217]

@@whobein add stupid and it's Bolsonaro

[@Helperbot-2000]

"What is taking so long?" *hacker playing doom* "uh nothing"

[@kkTeaz]

*hears super hardcore music* "Must've been the wind"

[@ratedpending]

what

[@itskdog]

Proof of Concept of an ACE exploit, though, which is why they did it that way.

[@freddieindaboxx4416]

Just add an "i'm not a robot" captcha then you're fine.

[@drabberfrog]

Then most of the ballots won't even be counted because people will fail the captcha.

[@nothanks39]

@@drabberfrog "people" sure they are

[@drabberfrog]

@@nothanks39 the voting machines will be the only ones smart enough to pass the Captcha

[@johndoe9450]

and make sure you have to confirm email adress

[@redleader7988]

Democrats: But minority people won't know how pass a Captcha...or know how to get an ID card.

[@Tiennuskhan]

To me you didn't even give the main flaw of voting from your phone or your computer : there's no guarantee that you've not been threatened or bribed to vote the way you did with someone checking behind your back whether you did what they told you to. No one can verify under which conditions you voted. With a physical booth this guarantee exists.

[@rui569]

Computers and phones nowadays have cameras. There are online exams and graduations with cameras check out and the use of a mirror to show your surroundings. Edit: Plus you can let change the vote in a time window to prevent cohersion.

[@kylefarrell849]

Nick someone's phone and you can choose their vote or restrict their ability to vote

[@Kronman590]

This issue technically exists for mail in voting too

[@rahhmusic19]

Same applies for mail-in. Do you suggest that disabled people that can't leave their homes can't vote?

[@Florkl]

See issues on that being really, really hard to scale.

[@JohnSmith-yx8kf]

“This video has breached our terms of service”

[@ignaciojavierkairuzeguia599]

Well, it's not that far away from reality. It's demonetized .... 😕

[@NoGoodHandlesComingToMind]

Oops!

[@heckingbamboozled8097]

Why would that be the case? The Dominion votes and this "contested" election weren't done with electronic votes. The votes were done in person, then printed and counted. That's completely different than voting from home electronically. The parallels the people in these comments are drawing are very strange and inaccurate.

[@caiusKeys]

Tom is clearly a Nazi /sarc

[@legendgames128]

@@heckingbamboozled8097 Printed votes? Oh, boy, that opens the doors for physical proof of a vote, and thus, blackmail.

[@MagyarGaben]

"Vote red, or you'll regret it." Said Tom, wearing his signature red shirt.

[@d.madureira]

Tommunism

[@yashsawarn9050]

10 years down the line: Tulags come into existence

[@PalkkiTT]

@@d.madureira Communism = Worker control over the means of production. There is no state, money or class. Tommunism = Tom Scott controls the means of production. There is no, unintresting places, american accent or electronic voting.

[@randompheidoleminor3011]

@@PalkkiTT time zones will be abolished as well

[@PalkkiTT]

@@randompheidoleminor3011 And Icelandic-Mexican food.

[@EducatedTiger]

Point made (and I've used similar arguments against electronic voting before, so thank you for the great material!), but as for the Doom thing: given that hackers and geeks will attempt to run Doom on literally anything with a chip, we've hit the point where if you CAN'T run Doom on something, it can be argued that that object is not, in fact, a computer.

[@Colonel_Overkill]

I saw doom running on cardboard pannels. Is my cereal box the computer or the poor fucker holding the cutouts?

[@TheTrekkie12]

somebody figured out how to run Doom on AO3 (archive of our own, a fanfiction archive in case you didn't know what it was)

[@pairot01]

Of course a voting machine is able to run doom, but its software should let you do it!

[@hanelyp1]

From a practical security standpoint, running Doom on a machine demonstrates that execution of non-trivial arbitrary code is possible.

[@romxxii]

And if you _can_ run Doom on it, Bethesda will try to release Skyrim for it.

[@guilhermeborges3]

Tom Scott: eletronic voting is still a bad idea Urna eletrônica brasileira: segura minha cerveja

[@iSantosVinicius]

E o tom tava certo kkkkk

[@mahuba2553]

pois e, ele tava certo

[@vicentefrancavalcarcel3995]

Ele está certo.... Nenhum dispositivo eletrônico é 100% seguro, assim como nenhum barco é inafragavel, (lembra do Titanic)

[@piticolsf4748]

@@iSantosVinicius certo por qual razão? Veio chorar aqui também porque teu candidato perdeu?

[@lucaschabu]

@@piticolsf4748 HEHEHEHEHEHE

[@Terratops474]

"To break an electronic election you don't actually have to break it, you just have to cast enough doubt." *Winces in United States*

[@oldgamermusic]

PS. CNN

[@thekingoffailure9967]

the funny thing is he's bashing physical mail-in voting and not the far easier to compromise electronic part. as much as a collapsing democracy can be funny

[@pflernak]

@@thekingoffailure9967 To be fair voting by mail isnt exactly safe either. My solution would be to extend the voting period and have a time booking system for when one can vote.

[@cordeep]

Please send help

[@someonesomewhere1240]

@@pflernak You don't even need a time booking system. Plenty of places have two week or more advance voting periods, no excuse required. What you do need is enough polling places and staff that lines never exceed ten minutes. That breaks the intentional voter suppression that you have in the US.

[@gibusgamer93]

"To break an electronic election, you don't actually need to break it, you just need to cast enough doubt on the result." *Laughs in 2020 USA*

[@TheGrinningViking]

I do believe the 2020 election was not rigged, because they rigged the polling data (rich people only like donating large amounts if it looks like you will win) and if they had rigged the polls it would have matched. But there's no way to check in states with electronic machines.

[@yawl923]

@@TheGrinningViking but of course when it was obama's election everyone was blaming the russian, but now that it's against trump everyone is saying it wasn't rigged unlike on 2016

[@sheeplessknight8732]

@@yawl923 no one said that 2016 was rigged, only that the Russians had a concerted disinformation campaign meant to interfere with the election.

[@yawl923]

@@sheeplessknight8732 cnn & bbc were all over it back to 2016, just because you missed see the articles doesn't mean no one said it

[@arceegee19]

@@yawl923 the russian disinfo in 2016 has actual data and proof behind it while the 2020 fraud cases have no basis evem after dozens of attempted lawsuits

[@tchevrier]

I'm endorsing Dashline for 2 reasons. 1. They've given me money. LMAO. Now that's honesty

[@Chris_Cross]

I hope in another year, we'll get another update explaining why it is still a bad idea

[@randomperson-ok9dt]

Reasons havent changed

[@infrabread]

Rule 34b: If it exists; Doom will be ported to it.

[@EngineerLume]

If I remember correctly, someone managed to get Doom working on a Smart Fridge. I don't know how you'd play on a fridge but I'd love to see someone try.

[@hammerth1421]

Rule 34b, Ammendment 1: But can it run Crisis?

[@eleSDSU]

@@EngineerLume Played on an ATM once, hard af but the best thing to ever run on an ATM.

[@owlhouse]

Calculator was fun

[@oliverhalenius]

@@EngineerLumesome smart fridges are just android phones. Not too hard to get doom running there!

[@robertojacobbalcells8994]

The German Supreme Court declared the electronic voting system unconstitutional since it does not comply with the transparency required by law, that is, the voting procedure can be verified by citizens at all stages without the need to have or have expertise (2009)

[@MarcioNSantos]

In theory it makes sense, but in practice it's impossible for a common citizen to verify all the process and a big number of votes.

[@robertojacobbalcells8994]

@@MarcioNSantos The German Supreme Court does not agree

[@danielwanner281]

@@robertojacobbalcells8994 Not gonna lie but the German government or affiliated authorities should not be the ultimate end-all-be-all on matters of digitalization. Germany is terribly outdated in every technological regard.

[@robertojacobbalcells8994]

@@danielwanner281 What the court says has nothing to do with technology, it’s about citizen control and audit

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

@@robertojacobbalcells8994 that's why they want the voting machines

[@hydrolifetech7911]

We've had electronic voting in Kenya for a few election cycles now and we've seen the counting stream magically and inexplicably doing somersaults to give victory to the candidate backed by the state security

[@yabombo8145]

That is very suspicious...

[@hydrolifetech7911]

@@yabombo8145 unfortunately we don't just suspect, we know it's been doctored. We even call the 'elected' representatives 'computer chicks' as in they've been hatched by computers 😂

[@MrHat.]

@@hydrolifetech7911very clever, I should keep this in mind if electronic voting becomes more used were I live.

[@bartomiejkumor9375]

@@yabombo8145 "Suspicious" my ass, in most "democratic" nations of Africa it would be more surprising to find out the elections were fair than it'd be to find out they were faked.

[@DLBBALL]

Guy Panzerboss I wouldn’t say Kenya and America are equally as democratic, so... (Not an American btw, just stating the obvious).

[@kennymayberry1054]

"you don't even need to break [the election], you just need to cast enough doubt." As an American... can confirm

[@coryman125]

"I'm sure that the device you personally are watching this on is malware-free and up to date" Wow, you've got high expectations for how much effort goes into my laptop

[@vonriel1822]

Don't worry, it was his way of saying nicely, "Since you likely won't accept that your machine leaks worse than a colander full of water, imagine how insecure everyone else's stuff is!"

[@fovlsbane]

"No windows, come back again tomorrow"

[@Aoderic]

Running a malware test right now, just to be sure...

[@jan.tichavsky]

I'm reasonably sure my devices are malware free because I'm taking care of them and how I use them. Still I can't be complete sure with all the apps in my phone, although any possible security problem would be most likely in small scale. Now imagine all people who are not tech oriented enough to have Linux and know exactly what packages are installing on their system, have checked the checksums or trust the package manager, are following security mailing lists, have real, limited rights sandbox or even virtual machine for internet use (I don't) and so on.

[@brandonmartin-moore5302]

The number of times I've sent the old video to people when they've asked why we don't just vote online now...

[@localhostechoEro]

524288?

[@themonkeyz]

@@localhostechoEro How can we know that this has been counted accurately?

[@codediporpal]

I was just typing almost the same comment. This video is so critically important.

[@namenameson9065]

Who needs to hack electronic voting when the left is already hacking our demographics through mass migration?

[@commonsense0692]

If we had electronic voting just imagine we would actually democratically vote on every agenda!! instead of one vote to elect one party and them having absolute total power over the country for years

[@jerryhu9005]

This should be a recurring series for Tom Scott! *Tom checks every 5 years:* _Is electronic voting still a bad idea? Yup_

[@Moks89]

Just reupload the same video, but change the intro.

[@jamil3286]

With how uk politics has been lately its more likely to be every 2 yeare

[@arthurgiles379]

Fixed Tom Parliament Act

[@jan.tichavsky]

I think electronic voting will happen in future, it's kind of inevitable to keep advancing in technology, using more and more automation while relying on ancient and imperfect system of manually counting votes on sometimes rather large sheets of papers with countless possible combinations. Automation will include scanning the ballots, counting the votes, then it will be matter of time before recording the vote itself will go electronic. Depends on voting system used but let me tell you that there are elections with many rules and voting options that not only it does already confuse the voters how they can actually and effectively cast their votes but the election commission (or how it's called) doing the counting doesn't exactly follow the rather thick rule book aka the law, and the volunteers are often retired people who have serious issues with any advanced counting and doing it for hours of undivided attention and not making a mistake, systematic or numerical. We have many reports how preferential votes were miscounted on paper ballots and more often than not the results are either kept as it is because it didn't have enough potential impact on the results or people don't find all the suspicious cases or the complaint isn't even filled. Because then that whole district would have to repeat the voting, less people would come second time and some party might feel they would get even worse result while holding up the final official result.

[@wereNeverToBeSeenAgain]

This guy completely ignores what blockchain technology is. As a computer guy you have to be critical enough to spot when someone is losing track of technology.

[@kibaanazuka332]

The only times I've heard of electronic voting in some form is overseas voters (Military or Overseas Citizens) in my home state where they can fax or email a ballot to the county elections office to vote in an election. The main thing is that you are still filling out a paper ballot and having to scan or fax your ballot to the elections office who treat your ballot as an Alternative Format Ballot that is verified of the signature and then put onto an official ballot so that it can be run through the machine and tabulated.

[@CarlosVictor]

You’ve just summoned Brazilians in your comments. Now you’re going to Brazil.

[@berg4549]

Tava pensando o mesmo kkkkk.

[@Nero_PR]

Mas não podemos negar que o algoritmo do KZbin funcionou que é uma beleza dessa vez.

[@gabrielymatias3998]

we are no longer asking, he's going to brazil

[@papaxota4725]

He's going to brazil

[@MrGamePlayer1000CHNL]

nonono i dont want to go to brazil ahh ooh god help me ahh

[@DougalNorges]

"I'm sure that the device you're watching this on is malware free and up to date" Aha! I win this round Tom Scott!

[@aaronstorey9712]

I think the viruses keep my computer working at this point

[@weakspirit_]

linux voids most problems. there's ad-blockers on my browser. hopefully i'm savvy enough that i would get away with visiting some malware-infested sites.

[@gizmodobaggins7040]

Dawn Praiser Linux users.

[@AdamWhistle1]

It is as malware free as my free software can tell it is.

[@empath69]

Gotta remember tell Tom to be more obvious with the sarcasm, next time. ;)

[@09philj]

Things found at DEFCON this year included: - Encryption keys for a poll book stored in plain text in a standard xml file. - Root access to a ballot marking machine achieved by connecting a USB keyboard and pressing the windows key. - Hackers were able to remove a CF card containing voter data using nothing but an inexpensive screwdriver, then replacing it with one that allowed the hackers to play pong. - Lots of absent or simple OS and BIOS passwords that allowed machines to be used as low end PCs.

[@Merahki3863]

It would be cool to see if someone could mod a voting machine to be secure from those exploits and as a result have their ideas implimented.

[@octorokpie]

@@Merahki3863 It would be cool to see if states would knock it off with this voting machine crap instead of trying to "fix" them.

[@MrAnonyM00SE]

I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of computer science majors suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

[@Merahki3863]

@@octorokpie you can campaign for a different voting system and I can want to see E voting improved. No need to get tribal about it.

[@RanEncounter]

"- Root access to a ballot marking machine achieved by connecting a USB keyboard and pressing the windows key." Wait what? So not even a single layer of protection...

[@Amirhesamyan]

In Iran, we solved this problem already. We know the election result before the election.

[@leoSaunders]

😂😂😂😂😂👍💚💚

[@MinePlayersPE]

7:40 "To break an -electronic- election, you don't _actually_ need to break it: *you just need to cast enough doubt on the result."*

[@fetchstixRHD]

Hmmm...

[@AlwaysAC]

Well here we are

[@Snommelp]

This is reminds me of the nugget about how seemingly everyone involved in cybersecurity refuses to have "smart house" technology. When you know about the vulnerabilities, you prefer physical security features.

[@jan.tichavsky]

I'm not afraid of vulnerabilities. If I know what I am installing, what is running, if it's up to date and I can update it myself from trusted source then I have nothing against it. I do have problem with smart gadgets I have no control over which send data to private company on private server (cloud), can record voice or picture (no thanks, I will not share these with anyone even if I'm not talking about any secrets) and on which I can't change or update the firmware. Of course it's a choice between convenience and security. I can setup smart home with full control and privacy but it will take time and I will have to actively manage it, including running my own server, be it at home or somewhere on VPS. For me that's not worth the effort and I will rather keep my home stupid, there is not that much to control anyway.

[@satibel]

@@jan.tichavsky I have a few smart home features, but they are on their separate network with no internet access.

[@GRBtutorials]

Well, that’s just because you can’t trust most manufacturers. If I make it myself, well, I trust myself, and if it’s open source, at least I and security professionals can inspect it for vulnerabilities, and even if the company goes out of business, you can still use it.

[@pflernak]

"ALEXA, How much of my conversations do you record and send to Amazon?"

[@nmotschidontwannagivemyrea8932]

The S in "I.O.T." stands for "Security".

[@pm146]

The people who understand computers the most, trust them the least (at least, as far as privacy, security, and financials go)

[@BattousaiHBr]

The same is true the other way around too, computer experts are not experts on current voting systems so they are oblivious to it's o n Fair share of problems.

[@marc1]

@@BattousaiHBr Those aren't mutually exclusive areas of expertise.

@@marc1 There are many things that fall under the "computer experts" umbrella, there are literally more than a dozen exclusive professions in the technology field that have almost nothing to do with the other. What are you even talking about?

[@DavidWonn]

As an I.T. guy who has seen many things, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@volundrfrey896]

@@BattousaiHBr Some are, some aren't. Any person with a basic interest in the security of a voting system will see flaws in some systems that has been solved by others. And some that hasn't been solved, and some are up for debate whether they're problems at all. Regardless that interest does have some correlation with computer knowledge, particularly with the knowledge of IT-security.

[@iGamezRo]

So, in Romania we have normal Paper Voting. You are identified with and ID Paper (Birth Certificate, ID Card, Driver License, Passport), then you are handled your ballot and a special non-erasable ink stamp. You go into the booth, you stamp your party/candidate/candidate list of choice then go out, put the paper into the ballot box and sign a paper which confirms that you voted. That's kind of it. The votes are counted by every election station's organizing committee and then passed to the local level then county and national if it is a Presidential Election.

[@andreimareilie9108]

A mers foarte bine anu asta nu?

[@iGamezRo]

@@andreimareilie9108 Am avut doar un tur de alegeri pana acum. De locale (orasul meu) sunt multumit si sa zicem ca si de europarlamentare. Era clar ca PSD-PNL vor fi primii si AUR pe locul 2. Mai era previzibil ca USR vor cadea si mai mult.

[@GeorgeKlinger]

Watching the scan line sweep across that cathode ray tube is mesmerizing

[@haydencantthink]

i like big word

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

I missed most of this video because I was too busy watching it as well.

[@thefrub]

I remember playing with those with a camera and my old CRT monitor. If you move around juuust right, you could make the scan lines disappear. Then you make your epic halo headshot montage

[@haydencantthink]

@@thefrub My dad works at microsoft and i get u bannned because i don't like you.

[@StopChangingUsernamesYouTube]

That intermodulation really is lovely.

[@billybobferguson3946]

this video has already aged like fine wine

[@hopin8krzys]

Why?

[@Trinexx42]

@@hopin8krzys He's probably referencing the shitshow that was the Iowa caucus.

[@billybobferguson3946]

@@Trinexx42 ye I was

[@thenumberfour6455]

The Iowa caucus is a nice piece of imperial evidence to reinforce Tom's claim

[@billybobferguson3946]

@Orlando Rotundo what?! why, what makes you think a company for collecting caucus data funded by Assigieg would be untrustworthy in the slightest!

[@lukejackson1575]

Jokes on you, I actually voted for Doom.

[@socks2441]

i always vote for doom, either literally in the video game sense, or metaphorically in the demise of life as we know it sense.

[@DomenBremecXCVI]

Before or after they formed a coalition with Gloom?

[@guscox9651]

vote for MF DOOM today! rip DOOM :(

[@Damian_1989]

Which Doom? The rapper, the doctor or the slayer?

[@brosekarlsen]

I got like 666

[@hamiltonsantos9295]

Have you researched brazilian voting system, we use eletronic voting for a long time and many possible problems pointed by you are addressed

[@igorhilgemberg6224]

Not every problem addressed by him was solved, actually there is a strong one that is really hard to solve, the fact that most people in the country don't even begin to understand how the software inside of the voting machine works. Therefore it makes perfect sense that people don't really trust on it. People never agreed to electronic voting because they can't trust in what they don't know. I mean, it's easy to understand a ballot system not an electronic one. I understand what people claim. Even if there are no verified faults in the system, people will never trust it because they need tecnical knowledge to do so, and that's a problem.

[@ContagiousRepublic]

This topic REALLY should come up every 4 years.

[@gohanssj48]

In reality, every 2 years. US and Brazil are big democracies of the world and use Electronic polls in their elections.

[@frecio231]

6 where I live ;)

[@ograndecanalha]

@@gohanssj48 was gonna comment about it being 2 years but you came faster opora

[@balinthorvath7468]

If it comes up every year everyone should be happy right?

[@A_29886]

Yes, because America is the only country in the world with election cycles

[@riccardob9026]

You forgot a big issue with "phone voting:" totally break of the "anonymous constraint." Do you want to "sell" your vote? (Maybe you are forced by your boss or someone with a power position) It is quite easy: cast your vote in front of your "customer." I cannot see any way to prevent this if I can vote with my phone.

[@Lunkanize]

Ability to change ones vote up until the deadline is one way. Not entirely safe, but its hard to control several people at once at least. And it would possibly create a great spike in traffic the last minutes of many people feel the need for it.

[@ankitraj9684]

It doesn't...even simple software like Google forms allow you to capture feedback anonymously. The problem here is can you trust Google and its code.

[@stevanmiladinovic4007]

@@Lunkanize So a phone-company can just run a script that will vote their CEO/CTO/main-shareholder in as president literally one milisecond before the election ends.... No way THAT could possibly go wrong, right?

[@stevanmiladinovic4007]

@@ankitraj9684 Your vote being anonymous from the person holding the vote and from Google are two different things here. In a potential national election - they simply aren't. The "person" hosting the voting for who gets to lead the state IS the state.

[@yitzakIr]

I say just make "vote selling" a 20,000$ settlement, if you can prove in court someone had you do this, they now owe you 20,000$ and you get to keep whatever they already paid you

[@EnterStationNameHere]

China adaptation : 'why voting is a bad idea.'

[@cx24venezuela]

Why Hong Kong get away and we need unleash deadly plague then

[@morienbendinelli1554]

China adaptation : 'why voting is a bad idea.' Ancap/A1 adaptation: 'why voting is a bad idea.' China: ? Ancap/A1: ? 😂

[@Vinkie]

US edition just came out

[@xway2]

The use the same sort of arguments as people in the US arguing in favour of the electoral college. Basically "people can't be trusted, we need a system to make sure they choose the best option".

[@CC-hx8gj]

Democracy is the worst system of government

[@calango4553]

Wow, I am watching the same questions that was answered 30 years ago and every two years my government still needs to answer again to this people.

[@danteregianifreitas6461]

Could you analyse the electronic voting specifically in Brazil? We've been using it here for years

[@felipeveiga5807]

No Brasil a urna e eletrônica, mas o voto ainda e físico, a máquina guarda seu voto e depois no momento da contagem ele é impresso

[@mateusponciano5806]

@@felipeveiga5807 Mas isso entra no mesmo "problema" que é apresentado no vídeo. O que garante que o voto armazenado na máquina é o mesmo em quem você votou?

[@PCzDan]

​@@mateusponciano5806 pelo que entendi, isso seria o mesmo que ele citou como "levar todas as urnas até o local de contagem", só que levar só os votos impressos ao invés de levar a máquina em si

[@PCzDan]

ainda tem o problema de garantir que o software não está comprometido, mas sinceramente não entendi como isso é diferente de voto impresso. Como posso garantir que a caixa selada, com os votos impressos, não vai ser substituída por uma outra caixa com votos falsos? Já que não deve ser possível identificar os votos

[@danteregianifreitas6461]

@@PCzDan a caixa pode ter hologramas ou outros tipos de truques que torne difícil o plágio, assim como dinheiro. E como o Tom Scott disse, burlar o papel físico é possível, mas a escabilidade disso é complicada. Imagina quanto não iria custar fabricar milhares de caixas de votos e milhares de papéis de voto.

[@MyoticTesseract]

In 2050, Tom Scott uploads the video "Why Electronic Voting Is Still Still Still Still Still A Bad Idea."

[@akivaweil5066]

@Pronto underrated comment

[@prashanthraghavendran2628]

Hackers: *play doom on electronic voting machines* Todd Howard: Write that down! Write that down!

[@Millenia3D]

It just works!

[@miketacos9034]

Better launch than fo76

[@AndroidNoir-L06k]

Hodd toward mad lad

[@TibiaOTarena]

Yes, I will by my skyrim that only works on a voting machine.

[@eyeballpapercut4400]

yo I'm 666th liker

[@dafnelopes5072]

All fraude cases in Brasil happened when we had to vote using paper. Counting votes one by one that came in a box that can be easily changed,replaced. Very safe and efficient.

[@EulerAlvarenga1]

The only problem, you can't confirm that for sure. We call this Faith.

[@nescaufrioemtbom1113]

The votes are counted by both parties So if we would vote by the old method, the PT and PL parties would have the right to count the votes

[@nandotemplo]

All DISCOVERED frauds you mean. Now they are just not discovered anymore.

[@zyuukki2704]

@@nescaufrioemtbom1113 Por que tá falando em inglês com uma pessoa que é nativa kkkkkk

[@nescaufrioemtbom1113]

@@zyuukki2704 maybe for the gringos understanding us?

[@guilhermedantas5067]

Also, here in Brazil, people don't just vote on their phones or computers. That's complete nonsense. No one does that. We go to locations determined by the local government, but instead of a booth where you insert your paper, there is an electronic device.

[@LukanRocks]

I want to add that we have a thing called Public Security Test that allows anyone interested in trying to hack to register for this test.

[@GabrielVieira-yc3iu]

Also these Brazilians votting devices do not have Internet access.

[@mariaeduardagirelli]

And we don't have to wait 3662574 years to know the results. We know in the same day.

[@plinsavi]

And any of these arguments refute any of his points. And Brazilian elections cannot be audited. Do you actually believe in the reliability of Brazilian election system?

[@LukanRocks]

@@plinsavi how it can not be be audited? I just said that the system is available for public eyes to check its safety.

[@DMDicas]

Eletronic voting is a reality here in Brazil for years.

[@matheusmonteiro7]

Voce acha que é bom? pra ser sincero eu acho bem dificil fraudar nossa urna, mas sla nunca se sabe

[@Joao-yg7bb]

@@matheusmonteiro7 Eu tb acho mto dificil,mesmo assim prefiro a eletrônica ao invés do papel

[@matheusmonteiro7]

@@Joao-yg7bb é então, pq eu vi uns vídeos e é bem difícil fraudar ela, além do resultado sair bem mais rápido

[@DMDicas]

Tbm acho que é bom. A maioria dos empecilhos que ele menciona no vídeo não se aplicam a nossa urna. Faltou um pouco de pesquisa da parte dele.

[@marciodelbarco93]

Pois é, o que o cara fala no vídeo é sobre fraude em computadores e enfim, mas na urna ela mesmo computa o voto e sai analogicamente um resultado impresso dando a quantidade de voto dos candidatos, não é como se alguém pudesse colocar um usb ali e fraudar algo ou descobrir algo.

[@markjohansen6048]

Even if software is open source ... Years ago a web site for programmers that I frequented at the time ran a contest: Submit a sample program to count votes that would bias the results but which looks valid to someone studying the code. The winning entry relied on a buffer overflow in a C program, for those who understand what that means. The point is, cheating software doesn't have to be blatant and obvious. You can put subtle "errors" in a program that make it wrong, but that would not be obvious even to an expert studying the code. And let's face it: elections today are high stakes. A political party might be very willing to spend a few million dollars to hire a team of experts to create voting software with such subtle "errors". Do it right, and even if you are caught you could plead that it was a mistake and not a deliberate fraud.

[@dominicbeaumont4932]

thnks mark

[@retronymph]

Surely though, while that would pass a cursory look, if it were actually to be implemented at scale, there would be enough eyeballs that even the subtlest of fuckery would get seen, right?

[@edwolt]

Before the election the machine should be tested, so this bias would be caught before the election occurred.

[@ChrisPoindexter98]

@@dominicbeaumont4932 🥴💓

A party? Nah, they wouldn't. Their "friends" in business would, however…

[@andrepoon]

“A centralised system should not be used as it can’t be trusted”… “this video is sponsored by… a centralised password system… to store all your most sensitive data!!” 😂

[@HANKSANDY69420]

Lmfao However ironic that is, I trust it more than electronic voting. Not buying it anyway, but still.

[@HANKSANDY69420]

@@doughoffman9463 and whats ur point

[@HANKSANDY69420]

@@doughoffman9463 oh

[@EulerAlvarenga1]

Well, a lot of them just got hacked this week. I think you have a point.

[@marethyu7145]

@@EulerAlvarenga1 LastPass moment

[@MaxAim]

This reminds me of that Onion video about the voting machines voting one of themselves as president

[@lennydagostini5845]

me too.

[@Games-mw1wd]

And the other one where they had a ridiculously complex machine with thousands of moving parts that took hours to fill out unless you voted for the "preferred" candidate by pressing a single big red button.

[@patrik5123]

I need a link.

[@algotkristoffersson15]

What is an onion video

[@algotkristoffersson15]

no seriously what is an onnion video

[@VovoDoMetal]

Tom: Electronic voting is a bad Idea Brazilians: hold my urna eletrônica

[@eduardofsilva]

meio difícil segurar ela, ainda mais se forem os modelos mais antigos que pesam 20 Kg, a atual pesa 9Kg mas ainda é meio pesada

[@GustavoCesario.]

@@eduardofsilva uahehuaehuahe pqp

[@eduardofsilva]

@@GustavoCesario. Mas é vdd, tenta pegar um bloco de concreto de 9 quilos e ve se tu fica de boas umas 2 horas segurando ele.

[@ricardokenji1]

Brazil is full of bad ideas :(

[@eduardofsilva]

@@ricardokenji1 prove that the Electronic voting machine it's a bad idea

[@annieliina]

I read the title as "Why election voting is a bad idea" and was very confused

[@JayAreAitch]

Also not wrong

[@sergey198]

The same, I thought "Why would KZbin recommend me this again?"

[@MrSqurk]

Democracy is the worst type of government except all the others

[@Fred_the_1996]

@@MrSqurk except no, in north korea our great leader votes for us so we don't have to decide anything, it's amazing

[@lick28]

@@Fred_the_1996 dictatorship actually can be as good as it is bad. Kim is just a tyrannical dictator

[@mattlarson9897]

In the state of Georgia, USA we use computers to vote that then print paper ballots for you to look at and make sure they are correct. Then you place that paper in a scanner that deposits the paper in a sealed container. When the election is complete they read the electronic scanned data. They also randomly audit areas by hand counting the paper votes and comparing them to the scanned data. All paper ballots are kept in case there is an issue, then they call all be hand counted. This way they can get immediate results but they can also revarify the results if they find any issues.

[@Quintinohthree]

Why would you want immediate results that could be overturned when you already have exit-polls that nobody will be confused by.

[@mattlarson9897]

@@Quintinohthree So far the immediate results have never been overturned because they have proven accurate every time. But if for some reason the immediate electronic results do not match the paper ballot audit we can still go back and hand count everything. Why would you ever want to wait days or weeks for results when you don't have to???

[@ComradeOgilvy1984]

This makes sense. Spot checking randomly is good enough unless you have suspiciously skewed batches. Then prioritize those batches (e.g. "Why are there two boxes that the machine tally says went 90% to one candidate? Let's look at the paper ballots."

[@EightThreeEight]

Isn't that just the world's most expensive pencil?

[@prostytroll]

Sure...

[@iacopoguidi7871]

Tom Scott: "vote red or you'll regret it". Also Tom Scott: wears a red t shirt.

[@GryphLane]

Tom literally always wears a red shirt.

[@sturek]

@@DRDynamyte_ I prefer the old shade of red...

[@roughshaf7321]

don't forget the punch on the hand to indicate towards the emphasis on regret

[@dragonslayerornstein387]

I'll always vote freedom 😄

[@soiledhalo2296]

@@sturek me too. This one is too dark imo.

[@kamil118]

"If you want to see how that works... watch previous sponsored segments" I think I've just been convinced to go and seek advertisement in my own volition

[@royalgaming-br1gl]

PC spec people: Will it run crysis Hardware Hackers: Will it run Doom

[@blunderbus2695]

Everything can run Doom if you try hard enough

[@monoastro]

@@blunderbus2695 show me how to run Doom on a single quark

[@hecko-yes]

@@monoastro some science person had a theory where all the electrons in the world are the same one after different amounts of time travel, which means every single game of doom ever played was ran on it

[@monoastro]

@@hecko-yes I asked for a quark

[@hecko-yes]

@@monoastro ...frick

[@henriquespt4528]

Wondering why i got this on my feed 4 years later just before the 2024 elections

[@MrToLIL]

Surprised youtube hasn't put a US election flag on this too.

[@Needformadness2]

Why would they, this isn't about USA. Not everything is.

[@Guztav1337]

The world doesn't revolve around the US. Wake up call! There are almost a hundred other democracies where this is relevant. Each of them has elections too.

[@Abdega]

@@Needformadness2 Because youtube automated systems don’t always know context so they can flag things that aren’t what the programmed parameters might be I remember back in March, KZbin was flagging a couple Plague Inc videos thanks to COVID If I recall it’s mostly been sorted out

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Because it is too old to be flagged

[@trygveskogsholm5963]

@@Guztav1337 Yea but youtube only cares about one right now.

[@jhorn928]

"You should still vote against it... while you still can..."

[@rebelfriend1818]

Vote against electronic voting... or you'll regret it

[@romainsavioz5466]

@@rebelfriend1818 vote online against online voting

[@lyreparadox]

We've got electronic voting in my state. Plus lawsuits about the machines changing people's votes... So, there's that.

[@ivarne]

"It needs to be obvious to everyone, no matter their technical knowledge, that the system can be trusted." Scary thing about electronic voting is that the more you know and learn, the less you think that it can be trusted.

[@QuintarFarenor]

Which is the problem. Tom is very naiv in saying that trust is the main problem. People are too trusting, especially if they can't change it.

[@richdobbs6595]

Funny thing about representative democracy is the more that you know and learn, the less you think it can be trusted.

[@laurencefraser]

@@richdobbs6595 then you consider the alternatives. Most of them have major downsides (usually 'doesn't scale past small town size without breaking')

[@icedragon769]

@@QuintarFarenor What are you even saying? You think it is a good thing that people can't trust their elections? You think that elections shouldn't strive to be trustable?

[@QuintarFarenor]

@@icedragon769 You're absolutely misunderstanding: I'm saying that people are TOO trusting! sure we need to make votes more trustworthy but we need to make people more sceptical too and I think that's a bit more important even. I'm in and from Germany, we have only paper votes. Even then I think people are too trusting.

[@wallyhackenslacker]

I love how KZbin consistently recommends this video to everybody every 4 years, even if you don't live in America.

[@donm1612]

In Denmark, which has one of the most digitized infrastructures, I was given a piece of paper with some names and boxes and a pencil. Afterwards I folded the paper and placed it into a box. The box was in constant view by multiple election officials. Results were counted before sunrise the next day.

[@emilchandran546]

Yep as an Australian, the big question I have is “what is wrong with paper ballots?” Our elections generally are called within hours of closing. If there is a delay for recounts it is usually the postal votes which come in late that are to blame. A paper ballot is cheap, easy and doesn’t need improvement or refinement. Even if every issue with electronic voting was resolved I would still wonder why it was preferable let alone necessary.

[@nienke7713]

@Alexander Löf In the Netherlands we just get a single ballot with all partylists and their candidates on them, and colour in a circle next to the candidate of our choice (vote goes primarily to the partylist that candidate is on, but also counts as a preferential vote for that candidate which may help them secure a seat they otherwise might not get). No need for seperate ballots that could give something away.

[@alaner1383]

@@nienke7713 The reason for a ballot for every party is so that you don't need to write/colour in anything to vote for a specific party. You fold the ballot for the party you want and put it in the box. If you want to vote for specific candidates within a party, you pick another type of party ballot with candidate names on them and fill in a box. The thing is, most people don't vote for a specific candidate and only vote for the party as a whole (76.9% of total votes last election) and so it becomes much easier and effective to just fold the party ballot and you're done. Also, if you let people scribble and colour ballots it can cause trouble if it's a rather vague and poorly drawn circle, or it can be used to identify someone's vote. So I personally prefer the Swedish voting process with several voting ballots.

[@SomePotato]

We do the same in Germany. The counting of the votes is also public and everyone can observe.

[@avengerofthedead142]

@@emilchandran546 Electronic voting being easy to count is a good plus, but far from the main reason people want it. The main reason is to increase voting accessibility and voter turnout. Probably not as hard in other countries but in the U.S. it's hard for people of lower-economic standing to go vote and there's also been a huge issue with getting newer generations to vote (heck, I missed last election). If I have to take time to drive down to a polling station and submit my vote, there's a low chance I'll do it/can do it, but if I can just take out my phone and go to some "secure" online voting platform and press a few buttons I'm almost guranteed to vote.

[@musicmanfelipe]

You don’t need to break it, you just have to cast enough doubt. Oh, that’s scary after last week.

[@aymanayman9000]

And actually it's a reasonable doubt considering what happened in the usa

[@Quintinohthree]

@@aymanayman9000 Please tell us what happened except votes being cast and counted?

[@pedrolmlkzk]

Good luck with your paper election, while the superior electronic vote countries move foward

[@Quintinohthree]

@@pedrolmlkzk We had electronic voting. We decided it was inferior by far.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

@@Quintinohthree who?

[@flashcat6665]

"I endorse Dashlane for two reasons. 1) They've given me money, obviously" I died hahahaah

[@phil_cassidy]

Are you still dead?

[@rtdlaboratories]

Well good to know youtube is a thing in afterlife :D

[@WaffleAbuser]

RIP

[@electronresonator8882]

despite dashlane relies heavily on cryptography, and there's already quantum computer

[@queeny5613]

1k vote

[@funtimedavi]

On Brazil, in theory, it is very safe our e ballots! There's no way to connect to internet, no way to plug USB once it started counting...

[@politicallyunreliable4985]

Huh....This aged well. Generally.

[@captainoblivious_yt]

Except for the Russiagate stuff.

[@lucasfernandes0002]

"To break an electronic election, you don't actually need to break it, you just need to cast enough doubt on the result." Funny how this video was recommended to me today, days after the president of my country, which use electronic voting, is doing exactly that one year before the election

[@fidelluz2942]

Brasil ta tenso mesmo

[@Ronin-errante]

pra ser justo, ele coloca em duvida o sistema dos estados unidos tbm, rsrsrs ... com certeza taria falando as mesmas coisas se a gente usasse voto impresso tanto faz o sistema... negócio é colocar em dúvida o resultado caso perca

[@victormendes7139]

Então o problema em si não é o voto eletrônico, mas sim líderes antidemocráticos que usam a falta de conhecimento das pessoas para jogar dúvida em um sistema que funciona.

[@faustomadebr]

Ele não é o único que coloca dúvidas e não é de hoje. Acontece que é tudo político: vão "prever" fraude para dizer que não perderam; vão dizer que ganharam apesar da fraude, se eleitos; e vão sempre levantar a dúvida sobre fraudes se perderem. A questão é, independentemente dos motivos, o ponto central está correto: voto eletrônico não é confiável e nós nem ao menos temos a impressão para uma possível recontagem. E ainda tem cara de pau que fala do custo disso, como se uma fraude não custasse anos para o país. E tem gente que só discute fraude para presidente, dizendo que é muito difícil, mas esquece que uma ou duas urnas pode ser suficientes para mudar a eleição de um vereador e já é estrago suficiente.

[@Odisseu_AOE]

Recomendado para mim também. Tenso!

[@codyhamilton7682]

I'm so sad Rewatching this as a computer scientist, after seeing all that's going down in Iowa primary, and knowing NY has electric machines and my turn to be cheated is coming up

[@DaDARKPass]

Iowa Caucus*

[@RoyalFusilier]

The caucus was part of the primary, that's pedantry.

[@samuelyoung2671]

Im from NY... everything is fked

[@Verpal]

All you need is vote for electronic voting once, just once, and electronic voting will be around forever and ever after. NY voted for politician who championed electronic voting, you guys brought it onto yourself.

[@fraudulentfem7322]

I live in NJ, and our voting machines print out paper backups at regular intervals.

[@Honïe4]

Update from 2024: they’re not even requesting id now 💀

[@TheAuron32]

boy is this relevant now...

[@justthomas2488]

😎

[@AkselWaage]

Don't use this video as an example to justify Trump's lies. Don't trust people who does so. The content of the video is fair and correct, but so is NOT the Trump claims regarding voter fraud.

[@thulyblu5486]

@Steven R it's easier to rig one thing (presidential race) than several things (presidential race, house, senate). All of them should be subject to scrutiny!

[@antonscraft]

@@thulyblu5486 they filled in biden out of hate and it blinded them so that they completely forgot to vote for the lawmakers, the pure example of blind hatred.

[@thulyblu5486]

@Steven R The ballot is not the only place where things can get changed as explained in this video

[@thekevinc]

who's here after the botched iowa caucus

[@joeganbogan270]

bernie: *wins* dnc: sorry, we dont know how to count

[@3209explosion]

Bernie: gets 30% DNC: Allow us to introduce ourselves

[@coolbeams6885]

America.jpg

[@thekevinc]

ADDING INTEGERS IS HARD OKAY

[@devil16935]

Yep

[@FilipeBento-me]

You should have a look at the Brazilian electronic vote system.

[@louise1845]

Offline system 👌

[@brunoluz4301]

I was going to say that! It solves a bunch of the problems cited here. Good thing seeing a fellow Brazilian

[@PedroHCF37]

tão falando inglês por quê

[@brunoluz4301]

Pro pessoal gringo entender

[@Teleleco_do_ifood]

Despite what some minority of right wing nuts says, the brazillian eletronic voting system works great

[@arievilolinad]

Bad idea é assar hambúrguer e salsicha e chamar de churrasco

[@kaseycarvalho6936]

kkkkkkkkkkk melhor comentário

[@MarcosWassem]

Ele é britânico

[@carolinwna]

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

[@HANKSANDY69420]

Ur clearly not a 'Murican, in more ways than one...

[@MrHatoi]

"You should still vote against it... while you can" That warning really hits different in 2020

[@jakobkristensensandvik5588]

In America at least

[@generalharness8266]

@@jakobkristensensandvik5588 everywhere. If you cannot trust the system you will feel robbed no matter the outcome. I do not trust the landslide in NZ to labor, as I was not ID checked when I voted in person.

[@pedrolmlkzk]

@@generalharness8266 "everywhere" *Laughs in Brazilian Elections*

[@Razorlight3]

On top of all of this, there was a ballot in the past that used electronic voting. There was one computer that read a candidate having 2^12 more votes than mathematically allowed. This was due to a stray cosmic particle ticking on the 13th bit on a computer chip.

[@vikumwijekoon3166]

I guess you have not heard of ECC memory

[@akshitsaini4690]

Bit flip

[@harshsharma03]

@@vikumwijekoon3166 it was before ecc memory was a thing.

[@sushant2664]

Yes I think it happened in Belgium.

[@gamermapper]

Do people really believe it's actually some cosmic particle instead of just a hardware issue (accidentally scratching one bit)? It feels like people try to use a very unlikely scientific concept that doesn't even exist in the real, macro world. Same as claiming that you've lost your sucks because of quantum physics and parallel universes.

[@RudahXimenes]

Hey, @Tom. I'm Brazillian and here we use electronic voting since 1996. Of course electronic voting is not 100% secure, as paper voting isn't. Here we use 2 separate machines that isn't connected to the internet at all. They run offline all the time and will never be connected to the internet. These 2 machines did not communicate to each other in any way, as well. So, machine 1 is used by the mesarys (guys in the polling station to make sure that you are you voting) just to count how many people voted in the section. They check your ID matching to a paper with all the names in the section, then allow you to vote in the cabin. Machine 2 is the polling machine itself. Once allowed, you can go to this machine (it's important to say that this machine is not associated to the other in any way, so it doesn't record any personal data or identification from the user) and vote. Before the voting starts both of these machines print a zero log (which is a log showing that both machines are empty in the beginning). Once the voting ends, both machines print a log, machine 1 showing how many people voted in this section, machine two with the voting numbers (eg. candidate 1 --- x votes; candidate 2 --- y votes; etc; All votings in this section --- z votes). The number in machine 1 and 2 should match. Then the machines are PHISICALLY transported with one representative guy of each party + neutral fiscals. Once they reach the electoral justice, the dump the data and count the total voting, as well they publish in the internet. But remember, all of the data can be verified in the voting section, once they have printed and posted publicaly in the section. Anyone can verify and report any incident. To hack one of these machines, the hacker should get physical access to the machine (btw, these machines have NO inputs unlocked). The source code is opened to public access before the elections and intensely tested all around the world. So even if the hacker get physical access, should be a painful job hack one of these machines. And to make sure the data is not compromise due to tracking, all the data is mixed every vote. I mean, for sure is not 100% safe, but I can trust this procedure. For me this is as safe as or even more safe than paper voting.

[@nathanant]

Obrigado por um comentário assim. Cheguei nesse vídeo do nada e achei alarmante ele soltar esse tanto de argumento tirado de teoria da conspiração e "as pessoas não fazem isso". Não deve conhecer a votação no Brasil e além disso acha que votação eletrônica é só pela facilidade.

[@erinbutler2892]

How is this an improvement on paper ballots?

[@RudahXimenes]

@@erinbutler2892 because people who don't know how to read can vote. Because we don't need to lose time counting each cell. Because It reduces human error. Because the dumped data can be checked for anyone. Because it's simple.

[@tedt7991]

I thought this is how electronic voting is/was everywhere in the world ? But apparently in Usa etc they can be connected to internet for no damn reason .

[@pakimonsas]

Tanta gente falando merda nos comentários, obrigado por recuperar minha fé na humanidade kkk

[@Gililaw]

i find it funny that im brazillian and there is a warning-like message saying that the brazillian electronic voting system is secure, btw im not saying its not safe i just find it funny that is appearing on a tom scott video

[@raiden72]

Unless you have the private key to your vote, it would be impossible to verify that your vote is actually yours or that it was counted. We all need Bitcoins for voting so that we can spend our vote with our own keys, not giving the government keys to our votes!

[@Naharu.]

@@raiden72 you need to go outside and touch some grass, even if its artificial

[@johndoe-vc1we]

In India I get a link to the Indian election commission. Well done 😊

[@johndoe-vc1we]

​​@@raiden72look up vvpat for Indian voting machines. We run the biggest elections on the planet now for over two decades

[@dasuna714]

Disclaimer

[@sivadasrajan]

Tom : Nobody moves Voting machines to counting stations, India : Chuckles in electronics

[@Michael-wr8ks]

That chuckle would be loud

[@caruazu]

Here in Brazil we move them too

[@TheSecondVersion]

Amazed that they actually create a polling station for a hermit living in the middle of nowhere because the law requires that every citizen have access to a voting booth

[@PrashamTrivedi]

@@TheSecondVersion I live just 3 hrs away from that place and it's a big pilgrims place in my state.

[@frndrandi]

The voting population being the largest in the world, we have no other choice but in no way they are 100% safe.

[@acehardy3629]

"imagine the sort of attack that could be put together by a small, well-funded team backed by a national governmet." *Stuxnet sweating profusedly*

[@gideonmaxmerling204]

more precisely, a few countries, we think that it was made by Israel and USA but other countries might have had a part, I think the current suspects are Britain and France, there are probably more suspects.

[@TalesOfWar]

@@gideonmaxmerling204 I'd be surprised if all the "Five Eyes" didn't have access to it if not explicit input in its creation.

[@MagnusSkiptonLLC]

Me: goes to vote. Machine: starts playing the music from Doom E1M1. Me: Uh...guys?

[@sweetwheatsy]

YOU HAVE TO BEAT THE LEVEL ON ULTRAVIOLENCE TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE PARTY

[@Dragonwing16]

wow people sure are taking a while to cast their vote this year.

[@HerraTohtori]

Knee-deep in the votes.

[@Luke-jo4to]

“To break an election, you don’t have to break it, you just have to cast doubt.” The Russian strategy in a nutshell.

[@thingsthatilikeabit]

plus to change an election, you don't need to change the votes after they're cast - just paint a big enough lie beforehand & amplify it on social media safe in the knowledge that there is no audit trail.

[@ashypharaoh8407]

Facebook ads destroyed our democracy :(

[@Themistertaco]

More like mainstream media, using Russia as a proxy

[@souljastation5463]

More like the Corporate Democrats strategy in a nutshell, it's them that scream Russia at every dissenting opinion, not Russians themselves.

[@Archimedes.5000]

@@souljastation5463 thats because all screaming russians are in jail

[@gigglysamentz2021]

I am borderline stressed at the idea that you have to go through this in one take XD

[@motmontheinternet]

It's probably a speech he's given several times, tho.

[@HawkeGaming]

Hi, I'm from 2020. This video aged well...

[@Pharozos]

Was looking for this comment.

[@Burge97]

Especially the constant hammer on the fact you don't need to actually break the election integrity, just the perception

[@EvilRamin]

Hi, im from 3020 We still aren't doing e-voting Btw, in the future it's a dictatorship, so you can't vote anyways

[@ausernameiguess7058]

KZbin algorithm knows what it's doing

[@trygveskogsholm5963]

@@Burge97 and if you really want to murder the perception of election integrity you could lie 5 times in a row about doing an audit/recanvas

[@shaggygoat]

I love how the honestly designed Nedap ES3B Voting machine was hacked to play chess despite it being able to only execute code in its ROM (not altered for the hack). Though a buffer overflow bug in a file save dialogue box, a new virtual machine was created on the stack out of crafted return addresses to parts of functions in ROM. Then there are the blatantly dishonest voting machines and tabulators made be Sequoia Systems (with Good/Evil switch SW4), Diebold’s "explorer.glb” back door feature, and the mandated single user and password to be shared by everyone because the system must be restarted every time a new user has to log in.