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  1. "But we must protect against bugs, against misconfigurations, against hacking, by always performing risk-limiting audits, by hand, of an appropriate sample of the paper ballots that the voters marked themselves."

    #AndrewAppel, 2020

    freedom-to-tinker.com/2022/08/

  2. "Voting machines are computers of this kind. Does their inherent insecurity mean that we cannot use them for counting votes? No. The consensus of election-security experts, as presented in the National Academies study, is: we should use optical-scan voting machines to count paper ballots, because those computers, when they are not hacked, are much more accurate than humans."

    #AndrewAppel, 2020

    freedom-to-tinker.com/2022/08/

    #ElectronicVoting #security #elections