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“Software everyone can see“ sounds like window dressing.. You would have to understand how the software works. Open source voting software is a great idea, but

• eru 4y ago
  It's a small step in the right direction.
• pessimizer 4y ago
  > You would have to understand how the software works. No you don't. You have the opportunity to trust someone who understands how the software works, which you wouldn't have if the people you trust weren't allowed to inspect the software. With this kind of logic, you could never trust an election where you didn't physically count all of the votes yourself. Since that doesn't make sense (not scalable when elections get beyond about 20-30 people), we allow voters to send people they trust to observe and participate in the vote count. This is like that.