> A judge may soon release a <i>sealed report</i> which was prepared as part of a years-long lawsuit over the security of Georgia’s voting machines. Its author, Alex Halderman, was given <i>rare access</i> to dig through the machines<p>Is this a joke? The voting method upon which democracy rests is kept <i>secret from voters</i>? That by itself should be grounds to drop machines and return to paper voting.<p>> There's a long-running and complicated fight over how much security is necessary to protect elections against hacking.<p>Well that's easy. As much as it would take to defend against a decades-long, focused effort by an adversary the likes of India/China/Russia/USA/CIA, possibly with the cooperation of a few compromised developers*, chip foundries, bios and microcode makers, and other manufacturers in the voting machine supply chain.<p>Oh, and a reasonably intelligent voter should be able to verify that the defenses are indeed as robust as claimed.<p>*<i>Any</i> developer anywhere in the dependency chain, including the compiler. See the classic <a href="https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Reflect...</a>