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Comment Re:Have you actually tried using Rust? (Score 1) 211

You are essentially blaming all security bugs ever on "incompetence". That's lazy management in the business world and it's stupid everywhere else. C has numerous and many traps. Building tools which make it impossible to make the "easy" mistakes is how we get to spend more time thinking about the actual hard ones.

Comment Re:Government Crime (Score 1) 144

Do you seriously believe that's what libertarians want or are you knowingly attacking a position that no person actually holds?

He's attacking the position they effectively hold behind all the barely formed BS which doesn't explain how they'll actually keep society running. "Don't worry charity will take care of..." what exactly? Because they certainly don't donate 20-40% of their income to charity at the moment.

Comment Re:That exists also (Score 1) 1089

Hi, I'm an electoral roll. Polling station staff check names off of me when people turn up to cast an anonymous vote. In this way, it quickly becomes apparent if a person claiming a particular name has voted multiple times, at multiple polling stations.

And nobody would be smart enough to think that maybe they should use the name of a dead person, or some name other than their own, when they cast their second, third, etc ballot?

Yes, you will catch people who are honest enough to use their own name every time they try to vote, but then, they aren't the ones that need to be caught.

It turns out the rate of this happening is so low as to be nearly non-existent.

Well, yes, I can believe that your strawman is truly a strawman. But how many times do people using multiple names vote? You're not looking for that, and you aren't stopping that.

In a mandatory voting system, every person has to vote. Which means any attempt at multiple voting will be caught when the real owner of a name turns up to vote.

Dead people aren't on electoral rolls - some might be, but are literally thousands of dead people still rotting in their homes before they're removed from rolls, enough to sway an election? No.

Comment Re:what's the C in AC stand for? (Score 1) 1089

I am shocked, shocked that something which sounds like an urban myth would also just happen to support a policy principally supported by Republicans because it would disenfranchise far more then 2200 possibly fraudulent votes, which would be trivially verifiable if these people and their addresses were on official electoral rolls, which they would have to be.

This is even more shocking, because supercentarians are sufficiently rare as to be of some significant interest in human life-expectancy. It's almost like there's a vested interest in people ensuring they never confirm or find any real proof of whether or not this story is real.

Comment Re:That exists also (Score 2, Informative) 1089

Hi, I'm an electoral roll. Polling station staff check names off of me when people turn up to cast an anonymous vote. In this way, it quickly becomes apparent if a person claiming a particular name has voted multiple times, at multiple polling stations.

It turns out the rate of this happening is so low as to be nearly non-existent. It is metrically insignificant, since the small fraction of attempts do not result in enough votes to potentially change the result of an election, and if it did it would result in a re-run.

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