> Voting Village organizers are frustrated that, despite years of security findings, voting machines vendors aren’t moving more quickly to make fixes.
Who actually cares about security? Enough to make it an active priority?
The neat thing about state actors manipulating the machines is that so long as they're not detected, no one will lose their jobs or contracts.
Remember, it took Team Trump being ridiculous to make Smartmatic seem sympathetic.
A better way to frame this is what do the parties care about and what motivates them to care so deeply about that topic? I was at Voting Village this year and to see the same dogshit Diebold systems from the 2000s was depressing.
Fortunately there is a solution since these systems are administered state by state. Focus on the potential swing states to make sure they are up to par. Thats where the real fight is.
I can tell you in my local state(a strong democratic leaning state), local activists have been pushing the government and they actually managed to phase out all old voting machines for a Electronic + Print system that allows the voters to verify the ballot before casting. There is a paper record in case the election is close and so it can then be recounted. Its not perfect but its a start.
Also there is something to be said that 95% percent of 2024 voters will be voting with a voter verified paper trail so there has been a lot of progress made.
Who actually cares about security? Enough to make it an active priority? The neat thing about state actors manipulating the machines is that so long as they're not detected, no one will lose their jobs or contracts.
Remember, it took Team Trump being ridiculous to make Smartmatic seem sympathetic.