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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by Sholmesy on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:52AM (#14967637)
You can't. Especially at scale (every person validating the software before voting). Paper ballots with a anonymised ledger of votes placed is, in my opinion, the best method.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by Findeton on Thursday August 10, 2017 @05:00AM (#14977797)
You can audit your ballot in some systems. For example https://nvotes.com (open source software here https://github.com/agoravoting/).

You could even create your ballot offline, even by hand.

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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by fredley on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @07:54AM (#14967652)
Paper doesn't scale well, attacks on paper are extremely difficult to scale well, which is why paper is a good system for voting.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software by Sholmesy on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @08:04AM (#14967708)
It scales "well enough", in that we currently do it, and pay for people to verify the results.

In Australia a lot of this work is done by volunteers from the major parties.

Edit: I agree, its difficult to scale an attack on paper :)

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