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Biometric Voting Technology Cuts Fraud, Tests Trust

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biometric-voting-technology
1•rbanffy•59m ago

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bediger4000•26m ago
What Biometric Technology Does and Doesn’t Add to Voting is the title I see.
DemocracyFTW2•26m ago
Be it said that in well-run countries voter fraud is so infrequent that neither voting machines nor "Biometric Voting Technology" are needed. Just use pen and paper and do a reasonable check on voter identity, like looking at their ID cards before voting. There is absolutely no need to go beyond this. With paper-based voting each vote produces a paper trail that is also the original voting document, a.k.a. the Source of Truth that answers the question "who did this anonymous person vote for?". When you do it with voting machines then either you have to use them to punch holes or make other marks on paper or cardboard, with which I'm by and large fine if nothing else is done. If a voting machine has counters or does data transmission in addition to marking a paper slip, things get much ickier: now you have several sources of truth and have to decide what to do if the counter or the manual recount is correct. Voting machines that work by only storing votes electronically are a complete disaster and should never be used.

Augmodo Raised Capital to Take Its Employee-CameraBadges Beyond the Retail Floor

https://startupfortune.com/augmodo-raised-21-million-to-take-its-camera-badges-beyond-the-retail-...
1•Baljhin•24s ago•0 comments

Eunice is almost here (William Gibson, Agency)

https://armincat.com/articles/eunice-is-almost-here
2•armcat•2m ago•0 comments

Geneva in 3D and real time with open data

https://geneva3d.ch/
2•sirpilade•9m ago•0 comments

Reclaim disk space with an AI agent

https://github.com/riza/ai-disk-cleanup
1•r1z4•12m ago•0 comments

Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-cut-melanoma-death-recurr...
7•_Microft•13m ago•0 comments

"Study history thoroughly" Lithuanian woman to hammer and sickle waving students

https://www.baltictakes.com/italians-praise-lithuanian-womans-open-letter-encouraging-hammer-and-...
2•Teever•15m ago•1 comments

YOD4COINS – Offline-first transaction protocol with adaptive consensus

https://github.com/masondosibongakonke2-blip/yod4coins-core
1•sbongamasondo•22m ago•0 comments

Watching the Watchers

https://watchingthewatchers.github.io/watchingthewatchers/index.html
1•taubek•23m ago•0 comments

Settler attacks, demolitions and roadblocks: A week in the West Bank [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhRXrmg4_6M
2•computerex•24m ago•1 comments

What will computer chips look like in 2045? [Dwarkesh] [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYSOKvNiiE
1•JumpCrisscross•28m ago•0 comments

Against Against Handover

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/against-against-handover
1•andyjohnson0•29m ago•0 comments

Why I Am a Programmer

https://www.alfie.wtf/programming/why-i-am-a-programmer.html
2•jruohonen•31m ago•3 comments

People are using AI to 'dumb down' their smart TVs. Is that a good idea?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ai-coding-hack-smart-tvs-9.7392179
3•devonnull•32m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Zubspace.gg – remake of 30yo Subspace game, a space MMO in the browser

https://zubspace.gg/
2•elux101•32m ago•0 comments

Gheist campaign plants secret-dumping workflows using stolen GitHub tokens

https://www.wiz.io/blog/gheist-attempted-scaled-abuse-of-stolen-github-tokens-stumbles
2•acossta•32m ago•0 comments

My wellbeing does not depend on my project

https://yapern.com/blog/my-wellbeing-does-not-depend-on-my-project/
2•andrewfromx•38m ago•0 comments

The Ways Rhythm Shapes Our Lives (2023)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-extraordinary-ways-rhythm-shapes-our-lives
2•NaOH•44m ago•0 comments

Where the Romans Fought (interactive map)

https://iosiflazaridis.github.io/battles-of-the-romans/
1•endorphine•44m ago•0 comments

The Question After the Answer: AI prediction and human autonomy

https://aegissolisarchive.org/the-question-after-the-answer/
1•aegissolis•45m ago•0 comments

LimonOS new OS no Unix no Linux

1•DrMoris•46m ago•2 comments

Coma – Paimen (1996) [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHjtmOFrX-k
1•jruohonen•47m ago•0 comments

The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality: A Dynamic Factor Analysis

https://www.nber.org/papers/w35914
1•paulpauper•48m ago•0 comments

How to promote my non-profit edtech platform?

1•rohansrma•48m ago•6 comments

Human Limits to Growth

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6742738
1•paulpauper•48m ago•0 comments

An American Answer to China's Open Si Models: A Safe Harbor for Open Weights

https://manhattan.institute/article/an-american-answer-to-chinas-open-si-models-a-safe-harbor-for...
1•paulpauper•48m ago•0 comments

AI-Powered Automatic Lockpick Machine [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4AUKGdScNI
1•pingou•50m ago•0 comments

Vibe coding is turning the music gear world upside down

https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1013493/vibe-coding-ai-music-gear-hacking-custom-firmware
2•larodi•50m ago•1 comments

How Forgotten Website Tags Became a Delivery Network for iPhone Spyware

https://blog.report-uri.com/deadtag-how-forgotten-website-tags-became-a-delivery-network-for-ipho...
1•DeepLogin•50m ago•0 comments

Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/meet-the-2026-winner-of-nikons-small-world-photomicrograp...
2•_Microft•53m ago•0 comments

Em dashes in long Reddit posts rose 9x from 2021 to 2025. In comments, 2x

https://kissmypost.com/research/em-dash-chatgpt-reddit
1•krutytskyi•55m ago•0 comments