Indeed, they are some of the least secure systems out there, black boxes where votes go to die. One was run by someone who was proudly fundraising for Bush and later accused of insider trading. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions?wpr...
The industry was trying very hard to monopolize before antitrust stopped them. The whole entire industry is a threat to democracy and should be made illegal and replaced with auditable paper trails. Or yes, even a blockchain would be safer, but that wouldn't be anonymous.
I'm not talking about casting ballot votes... I'm talking about transmission of voter data from the EMS to the printers.
Another part, do you REALLY expect the govt to give up control over the servers in the case of voting? If a single organization controls the servers, all access to the servers and all of the entries without public access, it doesn't bring anything adventageous.
The industry was trying very hard to monopolize before antitrust stopped them. The whole entire industry is a threat to democracy and should be made illegal and replaced with auditable paper trails. Or yes, even a blockchain would be safer, but that wouldn't be anonymous.