Voting system to be used in West Virginia elections is vulnerable
If there is one thing I fail to understand it is the impulse to electronic-ify our elections.<p>Why? Do we have a history of securing computers and keeping them secure over time? No.<p>Are computerized elections understandable to laypersons? No. Worse; even if the election was tallied faithfully by a computerized system, a demagogic candidate can whip up fervour and call the election into question.<p>And without bug bounties there is no legal way for whitehats to pentest these things. We're stuck with shitty scans and guessing at best. Even so, from what I've seen I fail to see why we should trust these votings systems.<p>But the public doesn't care. They don't understand that code is just data and it can alter itself. The voting machine industry has lobbyists. The paper ballot industry doesn't exist.