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> ...if we do it right, the Devil himself could build the voting machines, and we could hold an honest election,” Jones says. “And doing it right means having g
by throwaway2245 6y ago
> ...if we do it right, the Devil himself could build the voting machines, and we could hold an honest election,” Jones says. “And doing it right means having genuinely auditable technology...
Volkswagen proves this to be an unsafe assumption - their technology intentionally behaved differently during an audit.
I'm pretty sure it would be straightforward for the devil to know when they were being audited or not.
- Jtsummers 6y agoVolkswagen got around it via triggers to detect tests, not audits. It is a bit different. If you could detect that your system was being used in a test, you could yield correct results. Then otherwise yield biased results (perhaps the first so many votes of the day are always correct, and the biases are introduced later). Auditing means things like paper trails (get an automatic electronic tally, but produce a verifiable paper ballot that can be counted in the case of any apparent inconsistencies). This discourages cheating on the electronic tallies because you never know when an audit may take place.