There are some major differences between banks and voting.

1) Bank security relies on the ability to undo and otherwise correct earlier mistakes, which requires a system with no anonimity.

2) An ATM going down is bad for business, but the customer will go to another one or suffer the wait. OTOH, American voters demand the vote results before going to bed.

3) The bank's system are used daily. Banks had a long time to learn from past mistakes. Voting machines are only used a few times a year. This also affects reliability. Electronic voting systems can't be load tested before the election.

4) The load is much greater for the voting system. This may not affect security, but I figured it would be worth mentioning.

In reply to Re^2: Larry Wall for President! (or at least voting systems in Perl...) by ikegami
in thread Larry Wall for President! (or at least voting systems in Perl...) by radiantmatrix

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