re Voting Software a to true comment on our field

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Geoff Kuenning <geoff () cs hmc edu>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Voting Software a to true comment on our field
> Date: August 9, 2018 13:19:25 JST
> To: dave () farber net
>
> What Randall Munroe seems to be missing (the last panel and the popup are a bit unclear about what position he is 
> taking) is that airplane engineers and elevator designers went through *decades* of learning how to make safe 
> systems.  See, for example, the history of the Airbus A320.  Manufacturers of voting software don't have those years 
> of experience, and in fact they have been highly resistant to suggestions from experts in software reliability and 
> consistently reluctant to submit to outside testing (such as what the FAA does for airplanes, and other bodies do for 
> elevator designs).
>
> Furthermore, when an airplane or elevator fails, the failure is obvious.  When a voting system fails, the failure can 
> be incredibly subtle--and in fact, the beneficiaries of the failure can be astoundingly resistant to suggestions that 
> the results might not be accurate (see 2000, 2004, and 2016 U.S. presidential elections).
>
> So this is another case where reasoning by analogy breaks down completely.  -- 
>   Geoff Kuenning   geoff () cs hmc edu    http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/
>
> Orchestra retrospectively extremely satisfied with symphony [No. 1] as
> result of barrel of free beer.
>       -- Gustav Mahler, post-premiere letter to Arnold Berliner




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