TechnologyLiberationFront explains why voting machines are evil. ¹. Two characteristics prevent fraud:
1. Transparency – “the entire process is generally open to anyone who wants to observe it”
2. Decentralization – “each precinct reports its results independently of all the others”
I agree with Tim Lee: Using free software for voting machines introduces a tiny bit of transparency, but other than that, the problems remain.
More articles got written later: How using free software will lead to a situation in which “the integrity of our voting system can only be verified by a small sliver of the electorate” and all other security problems such as machine access or software verification would remain as bad as they are now ², and how Ed Felten should suggest the abolition of voting machines. ³
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