Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords after accidental leak

Post by CaliforniaKarl » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:39 PM UTC

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The Indian Voting Machines are the answer. No operating system, no passwords, no connections, no bruteforcing anything, system on a chip, so widely distributed devices that hacking even a few of them is challenging, etc. The US voting machines are just waiting to be hacked, just a matter of when, not if.

Just use paper, and count by hand on the day. You need to present an election system that will convince Joe Q. Public, who is almost certainly not as tech-literate as this forum, is probably not even white-collar or university educated, and likely also suspicious of globalisation. "Tamper-proof Indian system-on-a-chip" does not have that property. Otherwise you get increasingly unhinged arguments over the election re…

Post by wannacboatmovie » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:40 PM UTC

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Another example of "Everything looks suspicious when you don’t know how anything works."[0] Mailed ballots are verified against voter registrations and signatures are checked against the signature on file. This woman with a bunch of ballots for former residents of her apartment would gain essentially nothing and open herself to serious criminal penalties if she tried to vote as anyone except herself. [0] https://www.…

Post by crooked-v » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:42 PM UTC

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CO resident here. CO mails paper ballots to everyone* about a month before election day. You can choose to vote in person, or mail in/drop off your paper ballot anytime prior to election night. My understanding is what while the ballots are paper, many (all?) are tabulated digitally. It certainly appears to be laid out in a way that benefits digital reading, and i believe that is what the machines in question are res…

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Post by CaliforniaKarl » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:45 PM UTC

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Are you saying the video was made by an election worker prepping machines in a back room? These were deployed machines used in early voting. The amount of willingness to excuse incompetency here is unbelievable.

Incompetence is not malice. I just googled for more info: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/1... > Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown addressed the issue in a statement, saying the machine was temporarily taken out of service while an investigator from the Attorney General's Office was called to inspect the machine. Investigators tried to recreate the anomaly and were able to do so after spending…

Post by wannacboatmovie » Sat, Nov 02, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

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