The One Thing Blackboxvoting.ORG Has Overlooked The simplest and most important fact about computers -— COMPUTERS ARE TURING COMPLETE Corollary: a computer program can not be observed, at all. We can not know what program runs on a given computer, because the only possible source of an answer to this question is the computer itself, which in turn can be programmed to give ANY ANSWERS (due to its Turing completeness). A system program+computer can present itself to an observer as anything arbitrarily far from the real internal state of the system. That's enough for any amount of fraud to be completely undetectable. NO AMOUNT OF REGULATIONS CAN CHANGE IT!!! A program can always be invisibly replaced/altered. The law defines the elections as a particular process. Computers arbitrarily change this process — this is not legal (in a very literal sense of «legal»). Computers make the regulations inapplicable and the entire electoral process unregulated — lawless! The computers should be banned from the vote counting process regardless of the actual fraudulent activity of any parties. (ithipster.com) |