Voting vs. Safety-Critical Systems
If we can trust computers to fly airplanes, why
cant we trust them to handle our votes?
Accountability: Failures in safety-critical systems
are detectable
Standards and practices of
safety-critical software are not used in voting machine development.
If we required that, we could only afford one
voting machine for the state of Texas!
Safety-critical systems are not
designed to be secure against attacks by insiders.