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In reply to the discussion: DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System [View all]LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)1. And it allows the voter to verify their own vote.
And I really like this...
Members of the public will also be able to use the cryptographic values to independently tally the votes to verify the election results so that tabulating the votes isn't a closed process solely in the hands of election officials.
Any organization [interested in verifying the election results] that hires a moderately smart software engineer [can] write their own tabulator, Kiniry said. We fully expect that Common Cause, League of Women Voters and the [political parties] will all have their own tabulators and verifiers.
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Open-Source Software--You get what you pay for. Almost all not reviewed, and many done by hackers.
TheBlackAdder
Mar 2019
#33
Doesn't Australia maintain its voting machine code. And voting machine manufacturers have to use it.
catrose
Mar 2019
#25
there is a fundamental difference between voting systems and consumer financial systems
flyingfysh
Mar 2019
#24
"This is a problem that is so big that one DARPA program isn't going to solve ...
LiberalLovinLug
Mar 2019
#26
Very surprising from a group that sees the villians in sci-fi movies as inspiration rather than
rwsanders
Mar 2019
#34