Electronic voting machines suck, the comprehensive 2016 election edition

Banking is a different matter. It’s backed by insurance. losses are measured in the same units as transactions. Information is different. Everyone who lost PII in the OPM breach got little more than free credit monitoring. That’s not a substitute for losing information that can be used by foreign governments to target people with security clearance, yet it is all the politicians and lawmakers could think to offer.

Voting has it’s own set of issues. The anonymity aspect is one that banking doesn’t have to deal with either. The issue is far more nuanced than “computers are scary”.

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