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Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:58AM (#45666885)
> That pretty much undermines the entire concept of unit and integration testing.

It doesn't because even with unit and integration testing, software still fails and get hacked/exploited on a regular basis. What's worse with software voting is that a single good exploit could affect all the votes.

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Re:Public Trust Demands Open-Source Voting Systems by shadowgovt on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @08:26AM (#45668001)
It really can't. What is the mechanism by which it could? Different states use different machines and each individual machine is airgapped. A general supply chain attack would show up in statistical sampling audits (i e. hand recounts of small numbers of ballots, which we already do).
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