Realizing we’re talking about an imaginary world here, but in some cases probably appropriate not to discuss sensitive matters when you don’t know who is within earshot of the communicator

I do think it’s different this time, but

Some of this stuff seems real, but in the one twitter thread embedded in this article, the person says, “Remember, this is fiction.”

I do? And most people I know?

It’s not a personal problem, it’s a systemic one. Americans are disenfranchised by little percentages that add up here and there until broadly popular positions can’t get made into law. The Senate is inherently gerrymandered. Congress is gerrymandered depending on each state legislature. We’ve got the electoral college for president and supreme court justices are selected for life just depending on when the last one died. And everything driven by who can raise the most campaign funds.

I think this is closer to the real answer than the comments about “so and so will still complain.” That said, does anyone know if there is any companies making open source machines? Cause if not, there’s our primary reason why elections don’t use them.

Electronic voting could use open source software, but so can a machine that scans a marked ballot. The best practice is to have voters mark a physical ballot, then have them put it in a machine (running open source software) that scans and tabulates the results. If there’s a question about the integrity of the results, we can go back and count physical ballots.

@rockslice addressed this in another comment - you use signing certificates to verify it’s the correct code, which is a widely accepted method.