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1 year agoThat’s a very easily solved problem. You generate a code-signing certificate (already used all over the place, and why Windows occasionally tells you that software “isn’t trusted”).
You then verify that certificate in the presence of observers from all parties. At the same time that you verify the anti-tamper tags on the ballot boxes.
The parties only have to trust the person they assigned as an observer.
While not confirmed (AFAIK), it’s likely we went from Windows 8 straight to 10. With 95/98 being so similar, it wasn’t rare for software to recognize it by looking for “Windows 9” in the OS name.