Worth remembering that the app that famously failed in the Iowa caucus wasn't actually part of the voting system, which involved paper (and standing around). It was part of the precinct reporting mechanism, which is "election management", not voting.
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Weaknesses in voting systems get most of our attention, but, as Iowa demonstrated, election management systems (which are far less scrutinized and regulated) are also critical to our elections.
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Election management systems handle ballot definition, voting machine configuration & provisioning, precinct reporting, voter registration databases, pollbook generation, and a host of other critical election functions. And these systems, unlike voting machines, are often online.
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In general, individual counties are left to cobble together their election management IT infrastructure on their own, using whatever tools their vendors provide on whatever platforms they happen to have, managed as best as they can. They are low-hanging fruit for attack.
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So yell about hand-marked paper ballots all you want (and they are indeed a good idea in general), but also recognize that that's exactly what Iowa was using. There's much more to election reliability and security than how voters mark their ballots.
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Yes, the fact that a voter hand marks a ballot tells you very little about the overall reliability of the system.
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I don't know. How? I have been trying to find an answer to this question for years.
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