One of the things about election security is that there's no shortage of well-intentioned people who don't understand that they're engineering a complex system with multiple design requirements and non-obvious failure modes. They think "I can solve this one problem with X", without realizing that X introduces 2 new problems.

@mattblaze My hobby is engaging people in discussions of election security long enough to walk them into designing the largest central database of PII on American citizens the world has ever seen, only to see them blanche at the realization of what they've done.

Usually happens right around the time I convince them of the necessity of a facial recognition database.

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