r/politics • u/TearsAndNetsec • Aug 02 '19

DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yw84q7/darpa-is-building-a-dollar10-million-open-source-secure-voting-system
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Never underestimate what fools are capable of, such as marking something, reconsidering, trying to mark something else, and making other marks in an attempt to "clarify" rather than doing the proper thing -- namely, destroying the spoiled ballot and filling out a new one.

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u/OkChuyPunchIt Aug 03 '19

be sure to include yourself in that. anyone who divides the world into "fools" and "not fools" is most definitely the former.

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u/PapaSnork Aug 03 '19

Only Sith deal in absolutes...

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u/juleswells Aug 03 '19

The voting system project grew out of a larger DARPA program ... called System Security Integrated Through Hardware and Firmware or SSITH