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There Is No Reliable Way to Detect Hacked Ballot-Marking Devices
- ddingus 7y agoAbout fucking time. I have been preaching about this since 2000. Actually started research a bit prior. Here is the core of the matter: One, validating code that is actually running requires forensic level investigation. Non trivial and definitely not cost effective. This is why; https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210 https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=358210 More importantly, anonymous voting presents a machine trust problem that does not come up often. Imagine the computer is a person in a secure room alone. You approach them and say your vote, or press a button. Whatever. They say and or show you your vote through a window, and then they make a private record outside the view of anyone. That private record determines the election. You, the voter are forced to trust your intent was duly recorded. With a paper ballot, the chain of trust between voter intent and the record to be used in the election is intact. You the voter know your intent is captured. We have no solutions to this, that do not also involve personally identifiable votes.