Our Stance on Electronic (or Digital) Voting Machines
In the past we wrote dozens of articles about voting machines. The reason we bring this up today isn't to seed doubt and distrust but to explain things in context.
Later this week it already seems inevitable that there will be a war of words (or much worse) because some people - perhaps most people - will choose to reject the US election outcome based on their moods or ideology or disinformation aired in dubious channels (either mainstream media or social control media).
Voting machines are generally not reliable because the pertinent components - both software and hardware - are not of sufficiently high quality and mischief is harder to detect. It doesn't matter whose party or "belief" one supports; the science around the insecurity of voting machines is solid. Many researchers in this area are afraid to be vocal right now, knowing their words can be used or even twisted by the "wrong people" for "wrong purposes".
Regardless, most states right now have voting machines. And that's what it is... this election cycle. It's better than no election at all, so better to participate than to opt out "in protest".
In the future we hope that voting machine will cease to exist (I never used one; I cast my vote with pencil and paper). They're about as useful as a toaster with "Wi-Fi" and an "app". The simple activity of voting and counting ballots does not require thousands of complex machines with hundreds of millions of transistors and hundreds of millions of lines of code. █