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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] 49 points 8 months ago (19 children)

I have said it before and I'll say it again, electronic voting does not work and is a bad idea.

The election system is dependant on trust, trust that the votes are not changed nor counted incorrectly.

This works with paper ballots, you keep the ballot box sealed and under observation by observers from different parties, they can then verify that the ballots have not been changed after voting, you count the ballots together, in front of everyone, they can then verify that counting was done correctly.

With electronic voting the votes are cast by interacting with buttons on a black box, no one is able to verify that the votes are recorded correctly nor that they are counted correctly during the actual election.

[–] yuki2501 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

xkcd warned us and that didn't listen.

https://xkcd.com/2030/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Tom Scott warned us too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

And also literally the guy from the OP article, who is the same guy who first demonstrated this kind of hack in 2006.

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