West Virginia pilot program

[SpeareChucker]

[Not the airplane kind.]

The plan is to allow military members vote by smart phone based upon photo ID and face recognition. Now, I know a few of y'all have taken a good drivers license picture, but for most of us, it seems to be designed to make us look like a criminal. the homeless, the insane, or even worse.

So what are the odds that the person will be recognized and his vote allowed to count?

Will Russian look-alikes be able to "hack" the system?

I'm just kinda wondering is all...

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[bellisarius]

It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.

 

[SpeareChucker]

I just thought it was an opportunity for a bit of light morning comedy and to discover which poster(s) would be fighting to be the first person to take a crap in the thread.

 

[about_average]

Oh good, another brilliant idea from politicians ignorant about technology.

Yet another way for people to have no idea if they vote they cast actually goes to the candidate intended.

I also wonder how many are using ZTE phones.

 

[SpeareChucker]

lol...

ZTE phones.

 

[about_average]

lol...

ZTE phones.

Yes, ZTE, the ones the FBI, NSA and CIA say American's shouldn't use because of their threat to security. Them and Huawei.

 

[SpeareChucker]

You really believe that I had to have that reference explained to me?

 

[Rightguide]

[Not the airplane kind.]

The plan is to allow military members vote by smart phone based upon photo ID and face recognition. Now, I know a few of y'all have taken a good drivers license picture, but for most of us, it seems to be designed to make us look like a criminal. the homeless, the insane, or even worse.

So what are the odds that the person will be recognized and his vote allowed to count?

Will Russian look-alikes be able to "hack" the system?

I'm just kinda wondering is all...

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Facial recognition software falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. See here:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-t...s/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

 

[Wrong Element]

Facial recognition software falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. See here:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-t...s/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

Yeah, 28 does seem kind of low.


Regarding the West Virginia thing, I guess I have two questions: first, is this even going to work, because when you're talking about something like voting, anything short of 100% infallibility is not acceptable?

And second, is there really a problem here that needs fixing? My parents voted absentee for almost 20 years during my father's service. All they did was drop the ballots in the mail. Might be cumbersome by 2018 standards, but it's stood the test of time.

 

[Rightguide]

Yeah, 28 does seem kind of low.


Regarding the West Virginia thing, I guess I have two questions: first, is this even going to work, because when you're talking about something like voting, anything short of 100% infallibility is not acceptable?

And second, is there really a problem here that needs fixing? My parents voted absentee for almost 20 years during my father's service. All they did was drop the ballots in the mail. Might be cumbersome by 2018 standards, but it's stood the test of time.

There's probably more than 28 criminals in the Congress. My point is that software identified 28 of them as somebody other than themselves.

 

[Bray123]

I fly through European airports regularly. Every time I show my passport to the scanner and stare into the camera it fails to recognise me or any of my family. We have to withdraw from the machine and go to an old-fashioned booth.

Looking around the hall, I am not alone.

Facial recognition simply does not work at the moment, maybe in another ten years it might.

 

[patient1]

E-votes can e-vaporate. All elections should be done on paper, so that they can be recounted manually.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Facial recognition software falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. See here:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-t...s/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

I would have guessed it to be at least 500.

ETA: I don't know why paper ballots aren't used everywhere. They are slower, but they are also more secure, except for in Chicago, and are not subject to as many glitches.

 

[SpeareChucker]

Facial recognition software falsely identified 28 members of Congress as criminals. See here:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-t...s/amazons-face-recognition-falsely-matched-28

I'm not so sure about the "falsely" part of that claim.

 

[Rightguide]

I would have guessed it to be at least 500.

ETA: I don't know why paper ballots aren't used everywhere. They are slower, but they are also more secure, except for in Chicago, and are not subject to as many glitches.

I'm not so sure about the "falsely" part of that claim.

We know damn well there are more than 28 criminals in Congress. Apparently the software has a racist element as well. 20% of Congress are people of color yet there were 39% mismatches involving people of color.