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And how would you feel if those counting machines were closed source?
by philips 1y ago
And how would you feel if those counting machines were closed source?
- yongjik 1y agoHow do you feel that the paper bill counter in your bank is closed source? It does not matter because it's trivial to verify. The counter says "here is a pack of one hundred ballots for candidate A," and if you're in doubt, you just count them again. While representatives from candidate A's and B's team are watching.
- philips 1y agoThe difference is that I know the sum ahead of time and can object in the moment at the bank. A vote recount and/or judicially called audit can take months to resolve. This can lead to a loss in confidence in the outcome and for political shenanigans (e.g. Bush v. Gore). I feel far more confident in a system where the software is open source because it increases trust for free. As a citizen having the software be open source is only upside to me.
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- raincole 1y agoEven if it's open sourced, how do you know the machine actually runs the same code as you see on Github (or wherever the repo is hosted)? Verifying that requires more expertise than verifying the physical ballots themselves.