My attempt at my conventional thoughts and opinions: - Given we have seen chip manufacturers placing hidden hardware backdoors in common microcontrollers, it seems like the use of almost any voting machine would severely undermine the intent of democracy, unless the contents are presented for full public review. - The cryptographic software communities have developed working examples of transparent voting protocols for decades now, in the hopes of these things being adopted by governments. These are some of the same groups that have struggled as politics have heaved. [sorry, i had a couple more items but I've forgotten them. i've only read a little bit of the article, it's intense, it's great to see] It's notable that there are a number of different severely important things here. Many different important and dangerous topics are involved here at once. This can make it hard to integrate the material and possibly easier for partisan influences to change the story.