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In reply to the discussion: DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System [View all]flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)24. there is a fundamental difference between voting systems and consumer financial systems
If your banking system shows incorrect information, you can detect that immediately, and come up with evidence to prove that the system went wrong. You don't have to know if all the other bank customers are getting good information. Their accounts have nothing to do with yours.
For voting systems, being told that it understood your vote does not help. It may have some number for the total of all other votes, and that can't be verified by an individual voter. You would have to talk to all of those thousands of voters, and many would not tell you how they voted.
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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