[rapind]

Back in 2004, “Official federal voting system standards require audit logs to record all normal and abnormal events that occur on the system.”

And yet at that time Diebold had a system that did NOT do that deployed all across the US. Someone was deleting votes, and it wasn’t being logged.

Here’s lawmakers saying “should” do something, and an opaque reality where that didn’t happen. It was also running windows…

This is an attack vector. I prefer transparency. Open source would help.

[maccard]

> Open source would help.

How does open source help? If I place a device in front of you and tell you it's open source, there is no guarantee that it is running what you can download from github.

[rat9988]

> It was also running windows…

Nothing wrong with this choice. The rest of your point still stands though.

[rapind]

It’s just that windows is quite a bit more complex and vulnerable compared to much simpler and security focused OSs like a BSD back then or maybe Alpine Linux these days.

[vlovich123]

That's the point of the system I described. Vulnerabilities of the automated system don't matter. You verify the manual result and the digital result are the same.