[SkyMarshal]

>Researchers have spent decades to figure out a perfect solution but came short.

The problem is not with knowing how make a secure voting system. We already know how to do that and it's been in production in various states and counties for decades. I was lucky enough to grow up in one. It's not difficult.

The problem is that election administrators in many places aren't tech savvy enough to know the difference between a Diebold machine with no paper trail and weird hooks (like the ability to invert the results), and actually secure, reliable, easy-to-use systems.

Those folks are susceptible to skilled salesmen from big companies peddling insecure voting systems. As are politicians who have a say in which election machines are purchased, and who are looking for kickbacks, donations and revolving door jobs. That's the problem that needs solving.

DARPA and Galois are working on a standard that I hope the Federal Govt will eventually require for all Federal elections. Create the best possible, open, verifiable voting machine standard, allow any company to implement the standard, and then teach election administrators how to verify the implementation correctly adheres to the standard regardless who the manufacture was.