Holy See! It's Hand-Counted PAPAL Ballots!

[BradBlog]

Can the Papal Election Be Hacked? Not Likely.
They Use Publicly Hand-Counted Paper Ballots.

With another papal election coming up, one might wonder how have the papal elections, since 1059 or so, managed to remain secure and unchallenged?

As security technologist Bruce Schneir details at CNN, the trick is what we have long referred to here as "Democracy's Gold Standard": publicly hand-counted paper ballots.

Here at The BRAD BLOG we've been calling for the same thing for U.S. elections for some time. Granted, it hasn't been 1000 years, it's just beginning to feel like it. We were even recently immortalized for that effort.

Schneir's breakdown of the voting process at papal enclaves is absolutely fascinating, particularly as the process they've developed over centuries mirrors much of what the process would look like if our nation ditched its secret, oft-failed, easily-manipulated, unoverseeable vote-tallying computers and modeled our tabulation process on the open, public, and very rarely challenged process used by the citizens in some 40% of New Hampshire's towns. It's almost identical, in many ways, to the one used to select new popes.

As Schneir notes, when a new pope is elected, "Every step of the election process is observed by everyone."

"The ballot is entirely paper-based," he explains, "and all ballot counting is done by hand. Votes are secret, but everything else is open"...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9882

[Duer 157099]

1. Why not just take it to Facebook?

Use the "Like" icon or something?

[midnight]

2. We have all the tech experts telling us how the corporate private source code is hacked and blocked

so no one would see or suspect a thing.... But American tax payers have to pay for the corporations to steal our voices one vote at a time...



P.S. Demand paper ballots and remove the corporate private source code...

[loudsue]

3. THANK YOU !!!!! Yes yes yes

It's time we got our elections straightened out in this country!