Electronic voting machines suck, the comprehensive 2016 election edition

[anon17141263]

@sfsdfd

You accept the inherent vulnerabilities of paper ballots because people tell you that computers are scary. Do you think that computers are scary when you conduct your banking over the internet? Or buy stuff from e-commerce sites, or submit your taxes? Or access your health records or your 401k? No, you conduct all of those most sensitive transactions via a computer. Yet, when it comes to voting, computers are suddenly scary and untrustworthy because… why?

1: Computers aren’t trustworthy, as such for those other transactions.
2: All of the E2E auditable voting systems endorsed by cryptographers have a paper component. Perhaps some study into what is necessary to have auditability and anonymity is in order.