100% agree.
If automation is needed, use scantron technology (where you fill in bubbles on actual paper), which can be manually audited if necessary.
No firewalls, phishing, spectres or meltdowns.
If automation is needed, use scantron technology (where you fill in bubbles on actual paper), which can be manually audited if necessary.
No firewalls, phishing, spectres or meltdowns.
And here I was, thinking I was done with scan-trons when I finished high school.
But seriously, couldn't you modify a scan-tron's firmware to falsely report results? It's much harder to tamper with every person in an election across wide geographical areas.
When margins are close, you could count them all by hand.
Pretty sure we could develop ballots that are easy for both humans and scanners to read. By using computer vision rather than whatever they had in the 1980s I'm pretty sure we could find a solution here.
Even so, given the value of our democracy, I'd happily support returning to counting all ballots by hand every election.