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by rfonseca 4274 days ago
The problem is much bigger than the specific process used or the findings in the verification. If you look at what they found in the code in the short inspection, you would shiver. For example, vote secrecy was protected by storing votes in a shuffled order, where the shuffle was determined with the random seed srand(time(null)).

But still, the problem is the principle: the system is the only source of truth, and if there is fraud, or a bug, that changes votes, it is undetectable and impossible to prove. TO have the fate of 200M people depend on such premise is absurd.

The electronic system must change, but this will only happen if there is awareness and sound technical discussion by the population.