Failed Voting Machines - The Saga Continues

Lobbying = Corruption

Sadly these companies still believe in the myth of security through proprietary obscurity. If I am trusting a machine to mark or count my vote I want them to have open source independently audited operation. Guess that will not happen. Is there a Voting Machine Richard Stallman anywhere?

Matt Parker just posted a video which shows how wrong a computer can be: https://youtu.be/48QQXpbTlVM this shows a train ticket with 9 x 10^18 stops during one journey. So, how many votes did any candidate really get?

David Peaker

When there is so much mistrust between political parties this it no time to be having equipment misbehaving.

Daniel Bingamon

Corruption is the norm.

William Alsing

I saw this article and immediately thought of you.

John N Nelson

This wooing of voting machine clients via campaign contributions used to be a practice known as "bribery." Now this form of bribery is legal. How about we stop financing of elections this way, and do it privately, as money is not speech. Not a view held by the Supremes Court. This is the root cause of the problem. This practice of legal bribery has led to the corporate takeover of the United States, and has destroyed the idea that WE THE PEOPLE are relevant in the eyes of our elected officials. They only care about campaign donations (most of them) and make laws, and take actions that benefit these donors. My point being that it is not as much about the voting machines, as it is about the corruption that is allowed to go on in the US. As someone once said,"Follow the money."

Rocco Rizzo

Apparently the winning business model for manufacturing electronic voting systems is to place primary emphasis on wooing local officials, while ‘economizing’ on hardware and software development. Ultimately we must make a choice between secure voting (perhaps via blockchain) and completely anonymous voting, because ultimately we cannot have both. Each voter must be able to audit the tallying of her vote as easily and reliably as we track a package now. This will require attaching identifying information to each vote, though that information should be used only for auditing purposes and not for public access. If we get a system like that in place, I may become a voter again. Not before.

Well, another 'Philiy experiment' where the electronics go awry, and the authorities deny any wrong-doings....

With the most important election in the history of our democracy coming up soon, here in the UK, I'm glad that we have a purely paper vbased system here in the UK!

Dr Andy Hill