Electronic Voting in Georgia (Country)

boredhedgehog 10/28/2024|

For context, the President of Georgia doesn't accept the result of this vote, and the country will likely enter a constitutional crisis.

I find it noteworthy that such an elaborate (and probably expensive) electronic system seems to have no discernable effect on public trust in the result. Public statements still focus on fears and emotions, not on how any asserted falsification would be technically and statistically feasible.

r721 10/28/2024|

You might be interested in this post on some statistical voting patterns (by Russian oppositional election observer):

https://x.com/romanik_/status/1850634766279962994

boredhedgehog 10/28/2024||

That's indeed interesting, but the most relevant part -- impact on seat distribution -- is still missing. If 90% of ballots must be verified by a central database, I don't see how the missing 10% could significantly move the end result, even if all of them were manipulated.

yorwba 10/28/2024||

The ruling party won with 54% of the vote. 10 percentage points less would've cost them their majority.

And electronic voting can only certify that the total count matches the votes entered into voting machines; it cannot certify that the votes entered into voting machines weren't cast fraudulently. For that you need physical security at polling stations.

If the people physically controlling the polling stations want to commit fraud, they could even have voters put their votes into fake voting machines, while the real machines are somewhere else and get fed with fake data.