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Confidence in the system?
My voting experience today was not one to encourage confidence that our system of voting has even rudimentary safeguards against unintentional error, much less deliberate fraud. It just goes to show that the latest technology isn’t the solution to every problem.
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Perhaps the most distressing aspect of this is that the technology is not all that new. Banks trust the technology made by exactly the same company, with transactions that could cost them a great deal of money. Of course ATMs are not flawless, but they seem whole lot more secure than these electronic voting machines, and we trust ATMs with our money. There are a few differences: you can’t get into an ATM with a screwdriver or a minibar key, and there’s certainly no port accessible to the user through which the machine could be reprogrammed. Do you think any bank would accept a machine with such obvious security flaws?