Matt BlazeApr 19, 2023

Fox having to pay a substantial damages settlement to Dominion is a just outcome; their amplification of lies about malicious backdoors and rigged elections was contemptible and dangerous.

But we shouldn't conclude from this that US voting systems are perfectly or even adequately protected against attack. While great progress has been made, there's still a great deal of work left to do to make our elections truly secure and robust.

Show threadMatt BlazeApr 19, 2023
The best thing that Dominion could do with their infusion of cash from Fox - for both their reputation and for the good of democracy - would be to invest it into developing more robust, auditable election technology, such as optical scan systems with features to facilitate Risk-Limiting Audits.
Show threadNorman WilsonApr 19, 2023
@mattblaze What features are useful for RLAs? The obvious is having ballots easily read by a human and retained after voting.
Show threadMatt Blaze
@oclsc for the most efficient RLAs, you need a record of how each individual ballot was interpreted by the machine, and a way to locate the associated paper (but without preserving the order the ballots were cast). Do-able, but current equipment doesn’t fully support that.
Apr 19, 2023 at 8:23pmWeb