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by NullPrefix 2876 days ago
>manage to secure electronic banking

Quite a bold statement. Electronic banking is primarily secured by the means of insurance.

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Which detects problems and fixes them. That’s all we really need. A reliable way to detect problems and fix them.
It takes a long time to detect and fix problems. That's OK with ATM machines, because if you catch the insider who tampered with them months or years later, you can put them in jail and probably get most of the money back. But reversing election results more than a day or two after the first announcement is really bad for the stability of the country.

In fact, people are still digging into whether voting machine fraud happened in some states in the 2016 election. Any result now is too late.

Also, the nature of hacks is that you can often detect that one occurred, but not exactly what was changed. How would you take the news, "It looks like the Russians had root on every voting machine. But we've reconstructed the correct vote counts from analyzing deleted database files found in the free block list, and the winner is..." Not too convincing.

One of the vital sections of any election system would be the vote counting.

If you could have a third party verify the count within your system as accurate/inaccurate, then you wouldn't need that system in the first place.