Banks, hospitals, airlines, rail systems, and automakers are all on the hook - if their system does the wrong thing, someone will notice the unbalanced books, bodies, or wreckage (other banks, Treasury, NTSB, NHTSA), and the institution will suffer serious harm.
How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?
Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold?
The republic is experiencing significant harm. If it was not, people would not be talking about it.
> How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?
Audits? Open Source? Checksums? Hashes? We have many tools to verify the integrity of electronic data (I also never claimed it had to 100% digital)
> Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold
If the choice is federally verified company A or federally verified company B, then yes.
How will you know if an electronic voting system produces a wrong result, except by running a paper voting system in parallel?
Do municipalities choosing voting machine contractors have incentives aligned to promote election integrity? Can they critically evaluate security properties of what they're being sold?
I don't think so.