Can you imagine if instead the dashboard included a paragraph explaining the potential issues with the engine which resulted in a crash while the driver was reading the messages? Rather, the light allows the driver to glance at the dash and immediately understand the situation. [...] Visual Reporting and the Voting Process Social cohesion, gross domestic product, and overall well-being are linked to trust in government institutions through positive correlations in studies run by the Organization for Economic Co- operation and Development.3 However, recent polling data shows a significant portion of Americans lack faith in the voting process.4 To help ensure trust in the voting. [...] The power of data visualization is seen in the image sequence below, which shows snapshots of a simulated hacker attack on a data center protected with a VA. [...] In the third snapshot, Figure 5, a simulated hacker had unauthorized access to one of the data centers, changed ballot tallies in some of the ballot batches (red), and destroyed some ballots, preventing them from being processed (orange). [...] A picture may be worth ten thousand words, and the value of the voters’ trust gained through the resulting transparency is immeasurable.
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