Posted on 05/07/2019 1:49:59 PM PDT by dayglored
What will happen when our election becomes too slow to count and then gives the elector jail collage a blue screen of death?
“And you are going to believe the code they show you is the code compiled and installed on the machines? Or if someone does a last minute update?”
How are we doing it now? I’d imagine this is a step toward accountability, but I could be wrong.
For someone opinionated as myself I should be knowledgable on this topic and have ideas. But I am a bit stumped.
I want to believe there is a safe and secure way to do this electronically where everything is verifiably done by the books, but I can’t say how.
Perhaps indelible ink and day-of voting works best. Even then, how are we sure our vote counted the way we meant it to be?
Somewhere it seems we lost that underlying prerequisite for representative government: people who believe in the idea enough not to cheat.
“And you are going to believe the code they show you is the code compiled and installed on the machines? Or if someone does a last minute update?”
How are we doing it now? I’d imagine this is a step toward accountability, but I could be wrong.
For someone opinionated as myself I should be knowledgable on this topic and have ideas. But I am a bit stumped.
I want to believe there is a safe and secure way to do this electronically where everything is verifiably done by the books, but I can’t say how.
Perhaps indelible ink and day-of voting works best. Even then, how are we sure our vote counted the way we meant it to be?
Somewhere it seems we lost that underlying prerequisite for representative government: people who believe in the idea enough not to cheat.
“When was the last time YOU inspected any open-source program source, in enough detail to catch subtle security holes?”
Good point. But I do believe that the more there is at stake the more people do get involved. Plus, there would be many groups / organizations who would spend money verifying the code. There would be money offered to locate the security holes and publish them in order to fix them.
Big software companies do this now, and some people make a very nice living at it.
Honestly though, the more I think about the issues surrounding voting security the more I realize how woefully ignorant I am about such an important subject.
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