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‘Mischief and problems’: rightwing activists ramp up drive to hand-count ballots
(www.theguardian.com)
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Theoretically, but in actuality the software is written by incompetent companies and there's a much higher potential to interfere maliciously.
Hand counting our elections is worth the effort... even if this particular push is a disingenuous effort to muddy the election results. This is a "broken clock is right twice a day" situation.
Not necessarily true. Sure code is easy to mess up, source I work as a software engineer, but it's also easy to proofread. An open source government sponsored vote counting software could easily be implemented. Heck the data base without personal identifying information could be made public for people to compare results on local builds of the software.
As a fellow software engineer, please realize that open SSH is used by pretty much everyone and had several severe security issues for decades. Open source software is much more secure than closed source but if the pool of people reviewing the software in detail is small and the stakes are high then it'll be much cheaper for a foreign actor to expend 10 million per person for bribery or blackmail for a few dozen people then trying to infiltrate hundreds of municipalities.
I make software, I've been in this industry for decades and it's awesome - this isn't a problem space where it's a good solution.
Voting machines seem like a solution in search of a problem. Yes. We can do it, maybe we can even do it well. But that doesn't make it better than paper ballots.