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ASKING AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS ABOUT AIRPLANE SAFETY: ASKING BUILDING ENGINEERS ABOUT ELEVATOR SAFETY: ASKING SOFTWARE ENGINEERS ABOUT COMPUTERIZED VOTING: NOTHING IS EVER FOOLPROOF, BUT MODERN AIRLINERS ARE INCREDIBLY RESILIENT. FLYING IS THE SAFEST WAY TO TRAVEL. ELEVATORS ARE PROTECTED BY MULTIPLE TRIED-AND-TESTED FAILSAFE MECHANISMS. THEY'RE NEARLY INCAPABLE OF FALLING. THAT'S TERRIFYING. WAIT, REALLY? THEY SAY THEY'VE FIXED IT WITH SOMETHING CALLED "BLOCKCHAIN." DON'T TRUST VOTING SOFTWARE. AND DON'T LISTEN TO ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU IT'S SAFE. AAAAA!!! WHY? WHATEVER THEY SOLD YOU, DON'T TOUCH IT. BURY IT IN THE DESERT.) I DON'T QUITE KNOW HOW TO PUT THIS, BUT OUR ENTIRE FIELD IS BAD AT WHAT WE DO, AND IF YOU RELY ON US, EVERYONE WILL DIE. WEAR GLOVES.

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Comic made August 8th 2018, unedited.

Title text: There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.

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