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xariant t1_isy3ewv wrote

Reply to comment by qichael in The Earth is subjected to a hail of subatomic particles from the Sun and beyond our solar system which could be the cause of glitches that afflict our phones and computers. And the risk is growing as microchip technology shrinks. by Sariel007

It would be really stupid for a voting machine to be designed that doesn't use error correcting technology. It is not THAT much more expensive if at all, these days.

Bugs in hardware and software design are extremely common and are nearly infinitely more likely to cause problems than cosmic particles that evaded hardware error correction schemes.

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LilacYak t1_iszes9j wrote

Just reading the paper ballot twice in the span of a second would be enough, ya? Store the data twice, what are the chances that two bits will flip?

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Franc000 t1_it0c8f4 wrote

Yep, exactly this. Even better, have the system read the ballot 3~5 times, and the confirmed vote is the one that the machine detect as most voted. Completely automated.

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