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Open source voting machines could boost trust in US elections

• avidiax 3y ago
  Is there some reason that open source is better? Even open source software is opaque. You can't know that the software is unaltered when it's running on a machine. If that machine does something other than produce and print a paper ballot and provide a preliminary count, I'd say something is wrong. And if a closed-source machine prints the wrong ballot, it's for the voter to verify and object. Open source doesn't change that. Open source seems to be an argument only if you want to have direct counting without an audit trail. If that's the case, the open source aspect is just obfuscating that the overall system is broken.
• juliangmp 3y ago
  Is pen and paper so hard?
  • gdelfino01 3y ago
    The excuse for saying so is the people with disabilities. But is that more important that being able to understand and trust the process?
    • nwah1 3y ago
      Fairly sure that solving accessibility issues doesn't require computers.
  • namlem 3y ago
    Even if the ballot is pen and paper, you still need machines to count them. Hand counting just isn't practical.
• nwah1 3y ago
  Maybe we could have an elaborate key rotation ceremony. We could call it "pen and paper"