DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System

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48. Such a thing is not possible for the simple reason we can't look inside the machine.

Modern computers and operating systems are incomprehensibly complex.

Malware is easily hidden in both the software and hardware. Bugs in the software are difficult to find. It's impossible to make the system transparent without creating a window that connects the voter with their vote.

The incentives to cheat in elections are high, even greater than incentives to steal money.

Hand marked and hand countable paper ballots are the only way to go.

I also think our ballots are too long. We are asked to vote for issues and offices that our elected representatives are too timid to deal with themselves. There are so many items on a ballot that many people don't bother voting at all, and many who do vote are misinformed and easily manipulated by advertising and propaganda, especially television advertising and propaganda.