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Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.” (www.ajc.com)
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Computer scientist shows how to tamper with Georgia voting machine, in election security trial: “All it takes is five seconds and a Bic pen.”::An expert witness for plaintiffs seeking to bar Georgia's touchscreen voting machines showed a crowded courtroom how he could tamper with election res

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm coming from an oppressive dictatorship that kills people for disagreeing with them. One thing to enables them to is voter anonymity. An oppressive MAGA husband example is cute, ofc, but I wasn't solving "how do we make people vote with there heart is", this is kinda out of scope and definitely not crucial for a functional democracy, but wishlist-grade at best.

Now, voter bribery is a good one. Never thought of that and can see how this could be a much more sizeable problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok but how would a lack of voter secrecy prevent the government from killing people who voted "wrong"?

To me that just seems like it would make it easier.

I am a Swede and have luckily never had to think about these things, if I am being arrogant with my staunch support of voter secrecy, I want to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

You can't kill 12+% when you're in a demographics hole.