Brazil uses voting machines that can have their software tampered with or have 0-days exploited.
Unfortunately the issue of voting machines has become partisan domestically. The right (when they lose elections) claims they are rigged, and the left now unconditionally defends the machines, which shuts down any sensible debate on potential software vulnerabilities.
The most annoying thing to me about electronic voting machines is that the people who are the least ones that understand the technology are the biggest proponents for their use.
Not saying right claim of fraud is valid, but it is so dumb to defend electronic voting machines. The biggest problem is that it is impossible to prove the voting machines weren’t tampered with and if they were (unless the effort was botched), you will never know it happened.
Paper ballots are superior, because everyone understand how they work and it is not difficult to tell that something fishy is going on.
Brazil uses voting machines that can have their software tampered with or have 0-days exploited.
Unfortunately the issue of voting machines has become partisan domestically. The right (when they lose elections) claims they are rigged, and the left now unconditionally defends the machines, which shuts down any sensible debate on potential software vulnerabilities.
The most annoying thing to me about electronic voting machines is that the people who are the least ones that understand the technology are the biggest proponents for their use.
Not saying right claim of fraud is valid, but it is so dumb to defend electronic voting machines. The biggest problem is that it is impossible to prove the voting machines weren’t tampered with and if they were (unless the effort was botched), you will never know it happened.
Paper ballots are superior, because everyone understand how they work and it is not difficult to tell that something fishy is going on.