Reply #170: Closed source doesn't protect them from hacking by insiders.

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And it really doesn't protect them from hacking by regular voters either, with all the copies of the source code that have been leaked.

Let's also try a different tact. Let's also look at this from another point of view:
Electronic voting machines are bad because a very very large and growing number of people do not trust the integrity of their vote while using them. If people do not trust their vote is being counted then people will begin to look for non-democratic methods to change regimes (this is why the integrity of voting in democracies is so important).

Even if you don't understand the technical 'jibjab' about how computerized voting works (I am trained in this field. I do understand, btw.). Then surely you can understand the problems with this method of 'going through the motions to vote' enough to oppose these black box voting machines on the grounds that they undermine confidence in our democracy. Right?