Certainly all of the consternation over security and accountability of these voting machines could be easily solved if we were to rely on the most secure transaction methods available to the general public today, in the form of the bank ATM. Banks take very strict measures to secure the data in their networks, and are required by law, and investors, to keep exacting records of every transaction done every minute of every day. It seems more beneficial that instead of having purpose-built voting machines our propriety voting elections boards were to allow an open-standards voting collection mechanism. Access could be granted to every secure ATM provider in the country to report vote totals which would be cast by voters using their ATM or ID cards in every ATM available.
If we can't trust the vote reporting from our own financial instructions, how would we be able to trust even the safety of our own currency? Probably naively, I believe that my vote should be as secure and trustworthy as my own money.
If we can't trust the vote reporting from our own financial instructions, how would we be able to trust even the safety of our own currency? Probably naively, I believe that my vote should be as secure and trustworthy as my own money.
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Certainly all of the consternation over security and accountability of these voting machines could be easily solved if we were to rely on the most secure transaction methods available to the general public today, in the form of the bank ATM. Banks take very strict measures to secure the data in their networks, and are required by law, and investors, to keep exacting records of every transaction done every minute of every day. It seems more beneficial that instead of having purpose-built voting machines our propriety voting elections boards were to allow an open-standards voting collection mechanism. Access could be granted to every secure ATM provider in the country to report vote totals which would be cast by voters using their ATM or ID cards in every ATM available. If we can't trust the vote reporting from our own financial instructions, how would we be able to trust even the safety of our own currency? Probably naively, I believe that my vote should be as secure and trustworthy as my own money. If we can't trust the vote reporting from our own financial instructions, how would we be able to trust even the safety of our own currency? Probably naively, I believe that my vote should be as secure and trustworthy as my own money.