Infosec is a pox. Nowhere is this more clear than 'election security'. Whether election machines can be hacked is NOT the most important concern. The reason we went to electronic machines in the first place is the ambiguity of human marked paper ballots in the Bush/Gore election.https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/1164239438114893824 …
Machine input tends to be less error prone than writing, but obviously the UX is important for that. From the security perspective: it only takes a small number of people to notice that their intent has been altered to flag a problem.
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I get your point, but how about 1 or 2 errors per precinct per half day? People are more likely to fault themselves than the machines and the density of errors makes the likelihood of trend identification low, but impact overall could be high.
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To me, if we're trying to ensure accuracy, having a verifiable source is more important than processing efficiency.
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