Risk of false claims of ballot discrepancies

[dglittle]

Another problem: assume a malicious voter that wants to cast doubt on the election, what happens if they claim that their ballot was cast incorrectly?

Originally posted by @mspecter in https://github.com/siv-org/siv/issues/195

[arianabuilds]

Entry Summary for HACK SIV @ DEF CON 2024

Thanks again for participating! This submission earned $113.38 from SIV and $9.57 from the Public Vote, for a total of $122.95.

Here's what we noted in our evaluation:

What's interesting about this submission

• This concern gets brought up very frequently when people first learn about SIV.
• We could do a much better job communicating about this upfront.

What takes away from it

• In practice, we've actually seen false allegations go way down, compared to paper-tallying-behind-closed-doors. Election admins testing SIV love that voters don't need to take their word for anything. Very little "trust us".
• Voters ""in the middle"" of the issue, who previously didn't know who to believe, now can see for themselves that election admins aren't cheating, so the claims cannot stand. Election process becomes much less susceptible to disinformation about it, actively helping to shut down the evidence-free denialists.

Issue to track getting paid: https://github.com/siv-org/hack.siv.org/issues/11