From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2003 - 16:22:52 MDT
--- Spike <spike66@comcast.net> wrote:
> Brett, the disembodied brain needs to come to
> Taxifornia. One need not be a legal person
> to vote here.
True, there are opportunities for voter fraud. There
are opportunities that result in votes that get
counted, even large numbers of votes. If all the
facts come to light - which they usually do, if enough
of value is at stake - votes from that which should
not be directly voting (corporations, dead people,
cats and dogs, et cetera) tend to be dismissed. The
same would apply to AIs that can not convince people
they're actually humans.
But then, we're talking easily Turing-test-passing
AIs, which (as an extrapolation of the posit) would
be able to forge up birth certificates from
conveniently burned-down hospitals (or even from
still functioning ones, if it can reasonably be
expected that the people involved would no longer
remember or be available for verification) and
whatever else is necessary to establish ability to
vote. Or possibly just have drones shadow a large
portion of the city's populace, determine which ones
are able to but do not vote and will bother to verify
said status even if asked (possibly over 50% of those
eligible to vote), then have replicas armed with what
minimum knowledge and capabilities are needed
(address, signature, forged ID card, and looking like
a person even from a foot or so away) descend upon
the appropriate voting areas. Both of which are
still *technically* voter fraud...
Regardless, California is hardly the only state
susceptible to this. The magnitude may vary, but not
the raw potential.
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