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Why should we wait till the people currently in the field retire?

• twoquestions 8y ago
  The field of programming simply isn't mature enough to reliably manage an election with millions of participants, especially when we have ancient traditions of vote counting that work well enough right now. Look at how fast the people at DefCon rooted a voting machine! https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/30/hackers-defcon-conference-exploit-vulnerabilities-voting-machines/523639001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/07/30/hackers-defco... Think about the development of heavier-than-air flight. It was a thing for 50 years or so before commercial flights became common, and they had the collective world's genius spurred on by 2 World Wars to advance the field. Entrusting something as critical and nigh-sacred as our elections to such a provably immature and insecure as modern voting machines, and there's little impulse to remedy the situation right now.
  • heavenlyblue 8y ago
    Rooting a voting machine does not imply the votes can be faked, if the voting is based on cryptography. The fact that US believes IDs are optional for the citizens but also thinks that all-encompassing surveillance is OK looks delusional to me.
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