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.
@mattblaze hand marked scantron is the only realistic solution. Allows quick results and a verifiable paper ballot for recounts.
Any *private* non-public source code counting our votes is absolutely undemocratic.
@apenguininspace @mattblaze that's the problem. We don't know.
A paper trail is better than nothing but there's just precious little benefit to having a software program do the voting part.
If they open source their code so it's reviewable, that would be ok...but still overkill for what's needed, simple scan n read.
Next up is the blatant security failure of these *private* machines. Sure they've been improved, but why incorporate the risk if you don't have to?
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