By Selwyn Duke
Upon seeing election workers on TV poring over paper ballots and analyzing “hanging chads” during the contested 2000 election, many were aghast. “How could the United States use such ‘backwards technology?!’” was the cry. But as people advocated electronic voting, I and others pointed out the obvious: Such technology allows the massive alteration of votes via software manipulation — perhaps by just one person. This is why, warns a top-notch computer engineer writing in 2020, for our Republic to live, software-based voting must die.
That man, Hank Wallace, has sterling credentials that include writing more than a million lines of code for major companies during the last 42 years and having been granted quite a few patents. Living and breathing his work, Wallace is a fellow who’ll lie awake in bed at night designing systems and algorithms in his mind. It should thus give us pause when he says that putting his own ballot in an electronic voting machine sickens him because, he laments, he “cannot see what’s behind the algorithmic curtain.”
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