[daveguy]

I believe locally run elections are a good thing. As fraud would have to be perpetrated against multiple election systems. However, I also think there should be standards such as electronically tallied, hand-marked paper ballots saved for potential future audit.

[skissane]

Several other countries have independent electoral commissions running elections, as opposed to elected politicians. It is much easier for voters to trust the people running elections when they are required by law to be apolitical.

Look for example at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC)

[intended]

Simple diversity doesn’t speak to a level of security. All the attacker needs is time to canvas these locations, identify the weakest and then exploit those. Given an adversary with basically X$s, they can target Y election types.

Having a common system reduces the variety, but ensures that there is an equivalent amount of resources to deal with adversaries.

For what it’s worth, India which has the most complex election requirements by a mile, uses a single system. Entered as an example of how election services are better delivered using a single system.

[daveguy]

> Simple diversity doesn’t speak to a level of security.

Yes. That's where the standards requirements I mentioned come in.