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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by zanny on Thursday August 03, 2017 @12:51PM (#14921220)
Except we aren't talking about independent or private actors. We are talking about the Russian government. Infiltrating and manipulating nationwide votes becomes a real possibility with resources of that scale.

It would take an immense amount of reorganization of trust, but open hardware verifiable (both in person and on some kind of trustless ledger akin to a blockchain) voting systems would be more secure against such national actors, because there would be no back room to burn the paper in. If the machine is public and you can trust it, and you can trace the results nationally to insure the results were accurate, you have more security than you have now.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by justadeveloper2 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:35PM (#14921727)
That's total out and out bullshit and I'm surprised anyone dared post that on here. We're intelligent people you know and the "Muh Russia" narrative is not only dead, it is also buried. It was an out and out lie that only got traction due to the media being completely partisan and focused on creating outcomes instead of doing their job which is to objectively report on current events.
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