I'm not sure this is fair. Elections are discrete events, typically dealing with (relatively) small amounts of data, at least compared to any of the above syste

I'm not sure this is fair. Elections are discrete events, typically dealing with (relatively) small amounts of data, at least compared to any of the above systems, which processing thousands of responses per second, and need close-to-real-time latency. Plus, there have been multiple instances in recent years of cars crashing because of software issues, planes crashing because of software issue, Mars rovers becoming unresponsive due to software issues, and banking systems getting hacked. Granted, the rover failure was solved, but any of these issues occurring during an election of almost any size throws democratic systems into chaos. While I agree that putting more effort and expertise into voting software can make them more resilient to problems like the one in Iowa, I don't think it's obvious at first glance that deepening reliance on software is actually the best way to handle this problem, since it is actually possible to do them in a semi-analog manner (as opposed to flight-control systems or automated banking). [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-regulators-review-2018-fatal-161722509.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-regulators-review-2018-fata... [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/investigators-fault-boeing-737-maxs-flight-control-system-regulatory-lapses-and-pilot-training-in-lion-air-crash/2019/10/25/e8143d06-f69c-11e9-b2d2-1f37c9d82dbb_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/investigat... [3] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/305205-mars-rover-is-frozen-in-place-following-software-error https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/305205-mars-rover-is-fro... [4] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/russian-national-confesses-to-biggest-bank-hack-in-us-history/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/russian-national...