Where would you get the code from? Suppose I gave you a printout with that part missing? Suppose the printout was several inches thick - you get about ten thousand lines of code to the inch in round terms - might you miss it? What if I didn't call the date "date". Even then, you would need to compile the code yourself to make sure that what you checked was what was actually running.
Also, USB rives are in use at polling stations. I might subvert the code that opens a USB drive to add in some code to the program that was hidden on that specific drive.
To cover every eventuality that a creative programmer might find you would need to have an extremely detailed forensic analysis of every machine and that would take more time than you saved by using the machines in the first place.
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Where would you get the code from? Suppose I gave you a printout with that part missing? Suppose the printout was several inches thick - you get about ten thousand lines of code to the inch in round terms - might you miss it? What if I didn't call the date "date". Even then, you would need to compile the code yourself to make sure that what you checked was what was actually running.
Also, USB rives are in use at polling stations. I might subvert the code that opens a USB drive to add in some code to the program that was hidden on that specific drive.
To cover every eventuality that a creative programmer might find you would need to have an extremely detailed forensic analysis of every machine and that would take more time than you saved by using the machines in the first place.