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If a lone clerk can compromise the machines, should we really be using them? Do we know and trust everyone who had (legitimate or otherwise) access to these machines, including the manufacturer?

And what benefit do they offer over a hand count, to justify so much risk?

Just because the Republican's allegations about fraud were without merit, does not mean electronic voting is a good idea.

It's hard to decide which part to highlight, as every sentence is more farcical than the last, starting with the premise that the code that counts American's votes is kept secret from them, and the unquestioning trust placed by the author in what election officials and voting machine vendors say - election security is not something that should be taken on faith.

> Dominion has filed suits contesting unfounded claims about its systems. In May, it called giving Cyber Ninjas access to its code “reckless” and said it would cause “irreparable damage” to election security.

The machines are so very secure, that mere access to the source code (something which many people had even before - do we trust all of them? Do we even know who they are?) is downright reckless? Then we shouldn't be using machines at all, as they are clearly untrustworthy even by their own admission.

This is not a fringe opinion - electronic voting was ruled unconstitutional in Germany [1], and Computerphile has strong arguments against it as well [2].

In summary, we should be outraged that a leak was needed, not that it happened.

[1] https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-rules-e-voting-unconstitu...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

One-to-one messaging is not "amplification". Without Facebook's network effects, they would probably be using a different messenger, so you can't even claim that Facebook is enabling a communication that would otherwise not take place.

And the fact that it's not unexpected doesn't make it not censorship, or not worth pointing out.

"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war."

Alternatively, I wear a seatbelt despite never having been in a car accident.

Yes, proprietary systems are so accountable. It only took "the prosecution and conviction of hundreds of [innocent] sub-postmasters for alleged theft, false accounting and/or fraud, resulting in imprisonment, loss of reputation and livelihood, bankruptcy, divorce, and even suicide amongst those involved" before the UK Post Office's proprietary Horizon system was found to be the cause.

So far no-one responsible for the computer system or the prosecution has faced any repercussions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

It affects more than just sex workers. Amren cannot accept Paypal or credit cards due to deplatforming (or even draw attention to this through Youtube or Facebook, as those also banned them), Wikileaks was also financially isolated, and donation websites and payment providers deplatformed Rittenhouse's legal defense fundraising.

Funny the Guardian didn't mention this. Reading their coverage gives the impression deplatforming is limited to moralizing against sex workers.