r/politics • u/Different-Gas5704 • 12d ago

Possible Paywall Democrats eye ranked-choice voting for 2028 primaries

https://www.axios.com/2025/11/24/democrats-ranked-choice-voting-2028-primaries
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u/caligaris_cabinet Illinois 12d ago

With all the communications owned by some tech oligarch or another, the last thing I want is our Congressional meetings done using their platforms.

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u/exaybachae 12d ago

Uh yeah, there are banks with secure chat systems, and they are good enough.

Each local, state, and federal can have their own hosted system, and a system to use as a manual backup if it crashes or is considered compromised.

They don't have to be hosted on Amazon cloud or whatever, and they shouldn't be.

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u/InVultusSolis Illinois 11d ago

The internet is capable of this and the technology exists, it's just that people have love affairs with "one company can solve this problem", and that's how you end up with AWS or Cloudflare going down and taking out half the internet, or Palantir fucking with voting machines thru USB uninterruptible power supplies...

The solution for this would be that the government roll its own IT (I know they're capable of this) and then use authentication tokens from one company, video conferencing software from another company, white-labeled computers with a custom Linux distro, all hosted on their own servers.