[slasaus]

I was thinking of voting machines as well and think publicly verifiable code and hardware would be a good thing for cars (I don't think it's good enough for large scale elections, but that's another topic).

See this story about the need for open source for large publicly used systems: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/nyregion/volkswagens-diese...

[slasaus]

ps. just reading this in a post from Bruce Schneier[1] that is currently on the frontpage as well[2] which is about cheating software as used by car manufacturers and the IoT that is coming up:

    Voting machines could appear to work perfectly -- 
    except during the first Tuesday of November, when it 
    undetectably switches a few percent of votes from one 
    party's candidates to another's.

[1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/volkswagen_an...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10304428