northernjames

Thinking only about profit can and has lead corporations to some pretty dark places. Just because you work for a corporation does not absolve you basic human decency.

Accident risk has been shown to decrease by the same amount when the time switches in the fall. It's a wash.

When margins are wide, you could count 10% of the ballots by hand as a sanity check on what the machines are reporting.

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.

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.

For PDF annotating/collaboration, Xodo for the web deserves to be better known: https://www.xodo.com/app/#/

It displays/creates standard PDF annotations. You can collaborate with people online if you want, or annotate files on your computer without uploading them to a server (it uses emscripten/wasm/pnacl client side).

When 5G is pervasive and cheap, "instant apps" will undoubtedly become a thing, which will reinvigorate apps. The App/Play stores cause too much friction now. That will change.