Electronic voting machines are a bad idea. Period.
Electronic Voting Machines are a Bad Idea. Period.
It seems that more and more famous article from the ACM showing how source code can be trivially made to look innocent and contain hidden sabotage.
So when electronic voting machines come to your neighborhood, just vote No. If we can spend $100 billion on a war to bring democracy to a dictatorship, we can certainly spend a few tens of millions paying to hand-count ballots. It’s worth it to preserve democracy. Besides, it would be good work for some of the 1.2 million people who have been laid off in the last few years.