Voting by email seems sketchy AF, but it is in fact a thing for citizens abroad registered to vote in Washington.

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

wall-e / Daniel

@ryanc wait...like at least signed or encrypted? Or just "yolo here's my vote, let's hope no intermediate Mailserver changes it"?

LikeAMix

@wall_e @ryanc Can you imagine how entirely unprofitable it would be to set up a mailserver like that to change like, 100 votes? I’m sure it’s possible, just small potatoes. If you want to change votes there are way better ROIs.

wall-e / Daniel

@medley56 @ryanc I mean don't get me wrong. I appreciate any solution that might help spare the world another Trump presidency.

I just find it a bit odd (and funny) cause it basically eliminates the 3 most fundamental properties of a vote: secrecy, immutability and anonymity

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@wall_e @medley56 It's signed as in I signed the ballot before scanning it. It's also signed with DKIM, but the private key will be automatically published in a few days as is customary.

Per my mail server logs (yes, I hate myself) it went through a Fortinet system.

Washington state does not have anonymous ballots, period. It's all vote by mail, there are no polling places. Given that, sending the ballot via email doesn't seem materially worse.

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@medley56 @wall_e You send in photos of your ballot, which makes tampering at the very least extremely annoying.

Gaelan Steele

@ryanc @wall_e @medley56 tbf paper washington ballots are at least somewhat anonymous - they remove the ballot (in the security sleeve) from the envelope after verifying your signature, at which point your ballot can’t be traced back

obviously this doesn’t help if someone intercepts your ballot in the mail or something, though

Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:

@Gaelan @wall_e @medley56 or if they don't follow procedures, but fair