[ale] ***UNCHECKED*** Re: Georgia Absentee voting request

[Bob]

Even if you see the code, it might not be enough.

Ken Thompson's Turing lecture is mind boggling, and it's only 3 pages long:

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf



On 2020-08-27 12:59 p.m., Edward O. Holcroft via Ale wrote:
> Everyone knows that revealing the source code is a huge security risk 'cos
> the bad guys get to see it too.    /s
> 
> The thing I miss most about paper ballots is that you no longer get to
> spoil your vote in protest, if you so choose. Indeed, younger people don't
> even seem to know what a "spoilt paper" is. E-voting should at least
> provide an option to "spoil paper" for those of us wishing to register our
> dissatisfaction with all the candidates, or the process, or whatever.
> 
> ed
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:24 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 8/27/20 7:11 AM, Jerald Sheets wrote:
>>> Why don’t voting machine companies think outside the box?
>>
>> Not enough money in it.
>> No annual maintenance contract.
>>
>> If all the states got together and each put $50K into a F/LOSS
>> project for voting software, Americans would save money and be
>> able to trust the results much more.
>>
>> Brazil did this.
>>
>> But really, we should all just switch to voting by mail, with paper,
>> and drop off boxes for the 1-2 weeks prior to the deadline.
>>
>> IMHO.
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