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hscomms 9 months ago
If anything, some of our good friends in the computer science community are a bit too naive when it comes to dealing with the threat of election rigging posed by Von Neumann machines (stored-program computers) which, after all, are at best Voting Machine Emulators -- and not very good ones at that. (Their lack of transparency ought to disqualify them from use in public elections.)

In 2006, computer security experts (oh, sorry, I meant to say "fear mongers") at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advised the US Election Assistance Commission that "[E]xperience in testing software and systems has shown that testing to high degrees of security and reliability is from a practical perspective not possible." But I guess we can just throw it out there on the Internet and everything will be OK because some social scientist says so.