Elon Musk condemns the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in general elections in some countries.

A broken clock etc etc

Also, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/

"Hacked by AI" fucking lol

Reminder that this fucking moron is pushing Twitter as a financial tool. He wants you to use X like you would use your credit card.

But voting machines are insecure?

Wow. I actually agree with Elon Musk about something for once, what a shock!

Tom Scott has a very good video explaining why electronic voting is terrible all around and it will probably never be secure.

Tom Scott's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs Tom Scott's video via the Computerphile channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI&t=1s

It’s pretty rich that one of his stans is harping about how the Left “steals elections”, yet his guy literally tried that in the last election cycle. Then there’s also Bush v Gore. But yeah, it’s those crafty lefties doing the stealing!

"hundreds of voting irregularities"

Out of how many votes? Oh, enough votes that hundreds of irregularities is statistically irrelevant? Cool, just checking.

Oh, a fraction of a percent of the thousands of manual votes that Republicans had and tried to have thrown out so that dumps could win in 2020? k, just checking.

Well, he's got that one right.

Elections should be as low tech as possible. Everything going on should be verifiable with your eyes and basic tools only.

Keep it simple and keep it monitored by at least 3 to 5 people at all times.

who cares if the counting takes a few days, as long as i can trust the results.

And dear fellows in the USA, for the love of god, move the voting day to a Sunday already.

Isn't this the doofus who wanted to send a submarine into a cave? Dude doesn't have the intellectual heft necessary to manage a QuikTrip in Topeka.

But, take this drivel seriously. They like it when rural, red areas report their vote totals first, so that the news outlets will report that Republicans are "leading" early in the evening, before the blue cities finish their counting and overtake the early totals. It's a cheap trick to sell the claim that the election was stolen to their followers, y'know, the people who think that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

I agree. While we're at it, we can also make election day a holiday and require employers to give workers at least a paid half-day off so that they can vote, and create a citizenship ID that is free and easy to get rather than using ID with requirements like a driver's license. Then maybe we can try out ranked choice voting and eliminate the electoral college. You know, since we want the election to be fair.

Unfortunately Republicans are not good faith actors in this space. There are many issues to discuss about voting, but I'll just stick to one very important one, access. Republicans limit access to voting. They are not for mail in voting and continue to close down polling places forcing thousands of citizens to stand in line for hours. If they really cared, they would make it easier for the citizens to vote. But we know that's not their goal. They win when fewer people vote. So, whatever means to achieve that, that's what they'll do.

Seems almost paradoxical but yeah physical voting is the way to go https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

not even joking, i find that if there's one Twitter account to act as a definitive guide to policy, science, technology and various issues, it's Elon's account.

just carefully read every tweet and do the exact opposite. there's no way you can go wrong with it.

Even his good opinions need to overhype AI...

Anyway, we all saw that Tom Scott video, we know it's a bad idea.

Brazil has used electronic voting since 1997 and has had no major issues since (there was a bad history of fraud in the paper ballot era). It runs on Linux and they hold a public safety test in the year before where they test the system's security.

It's not even all about being hackable. Voters should be able to fully understand exactly how their vote is counted. These systems ain't it.

Can't election committees call recount anyway?

EVMs, especially those, that do not connect to the internet, are fine. Online voting on the other hand...

To me that's the minor issue. The real question is whether people can vote online. Clearly they should be able to, we ought to be able to devise stable systems where they can, and in some states voters already do to some degree.

Honestly, I'm open to election reform if it means dead people can't vote.

I want everyone to have a cryptographic identity rooted in government trust that they use for voting and everything else related to the government.