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by c0l0 137 days ago
No.
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Why not? Being terse does not make one right...
Off the top of my head, because

- You're just moving your trust elsewhere, this time to a private corporation (whoever makes the CPU / TPM / other "trusted" component).

- This doesn't guarantee voter anonymity the way paper ballots do. Considering the analog hole and the complexity of computers, I can think of a billion ways a motivated and resourceful Mallory could to connect someone to their ballot.

> This doesn't guarantee voter anonymity the way paper ballots do.

You're saying that with a lot of assurance, but in my opinion that's still to be debated. We can build something that will keep at least a degree of separation between the identity that points to a specific individual and the identity that casts the ballot.

Right... we should not even try because memes...
those who don't understand the memes are doomed to be them
I'd prefer to be the butt of someone's memes rather than not try at all.