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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by giancarlostoro on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:51AM (#14967633)
I agree with you entirely. There is no absolute way that we know of to truly know the code running is the exact code on GitHub. You can fake that it is in many ways, I don't see people running shell commands on the software before and after they vote to make sure it's the correct software. Even IF that software remains uncompromised, who owns the database? Who stops them from-

Way too many factors...

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by fredley on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:53AM (#14967642)
On top of this, we all know that if it was implemented as well as physically possible, there would still be vectors for attack. However, if current voting machine trials are anything to go by, it's usually implemented extremely poorly.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by DarkKomunalec on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:07AM (#14967725)
> I don't see people running shell commands on the software before and after they vote to make sure it's the correct software.

How would you know the shell itself, running on the machine you're trying to verify, isn't lying to you?

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