Re:New Hampshire set to pilot voting machines that use softw...
by simiones on Friday November 04, 2022 @11:44AM
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"Open source" voting machines is essentially like baby-proofing a machine-gun. All of the problems that electronic voting poses to true democracy are 100% still there, but it looks safer - which may, unfortunately, make it more attractive.
I'm putting open source in quotes, since only software can be open source, a voting machine is a piece of hardware that you do not own, so you have no idea what it software it is running.
I'm putting open source in quotes, since only software can be open source, a voting machine is a piece of hardware that you do not own, so you have no idea what it software it is running.