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posted by cmn32480 on Thursday October 06 2016, @10:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the rigged-in-not-the-peoples-favor dept.

With the U.S. presidential election just weeks away, questions about election security continue to dog the nation's voting system.

It's too late for election officials to make major improvements, "and there are no resources," said Joe Kiniry, a long-time election security researcher.

However, officials can take several steps for upcoming elections, security experts say.

"Nobody should ever imagine changing the voting technology used this close to a general election," said Douglas Jones, a computer science professor at the University of Iowa. "The best time to buy new equipment would be in January after a general election, so you've got almost two years to learn how to use it."

  • Stop using touchscreen electronic voting machines without printers
  • Conduct more extensive pre-election voting machine tests
  • Put better election auditing processes in place
  • Hire hackers to test your systems
  • Ensure that strong physical security is in place

Voters worried about vulnerable voting machines can rest easy--the fix is in!


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @11:19PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 06 2016, @11:19PM (#411255)

    Here's what's even better about this election. if Trump doesn't win, it's proof that there's rampant voter fraud caused by a lack of photo ID laws. If Clinton doesn't win, it's proof that Russian commies have hacked the polls using their hacker superpowers.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @01:32AM (#411281)

    More likely the russians will hack the registration data so random people are turned away at the voting booth which will blow up and gets tons of news coverage. The russians' goal isn't to necessarily to make Trump win, but to sow chaos. Trump is definitely an agent of chaos, but he is not the only way to accomplish that.