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How many scrutineers would be able to verify that paper? Let alone normal voters. (Scrutineer might be a poll-watcher in the US?)

• nailer 3y ago
  I imagine anyone who runs the mobile app could probably open the camera and scan it.
  • mkj 3y ago
    How do you convince them the mobile app is doing what it says? There are so many layers of things that are completely invisible to a human without using other computer tools. Paper physically moving is way easier to understand and watch.
    • specialist 3y ago
      It's turtles all the way down with this crap. I observed the "audit" of my county's VVPAT. When the printout was found to be illegible, the admins just printed another copy. Proving, at best, the printer occassionally worked. My county trashed our touchscreen voting machines. Sadly, vendors, technophiles, and a certain type academic, remain undaunted in their enthusiasm for unverifiable elections. Eg Adjudication of postal ballots, at scale, isn't any better than the touchscreens they replaced in that regard. How hard could it be? Well, the stack my county uses, for "efficiency", fully digitizes the audit trail.
    • nailer 3y ago
      Good question. The mobile app’s source code has been inspected by independent subject matter expects.