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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: 4, Insightful) by jmorris on Friday October 07 2016, @12:02AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday October 07 2016, @12:02AM (#411266)

    We know how to run a fraudproof election. We refuse to do it here in the U.S. itself for reasons which should be obvious. But we do know how, the U.S. military did just fine in Iraq. Photo ID, paper ballots, purple dye on the finger, clear plastic tub to hold cast ballots, hand count after the polls close with plenty of witnesses. No fraud, not even any grumblings of fraud because it was so self evidently transparent. And never been done inside the U.S. and won't ever be done here. Draw your own conclusion.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Zz9zZ on Friday October 07 2016, @03:20AM

    by Zz9zZ (1348) on Friday October 07 2016, @03:20AM (#411319)

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:36PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:36PM (#411520)

      Lol you said to draw our own conclusions, maybe you missed the "them" below the hand?

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @11:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @11:21AM (#411430)

    Fuck Photo ID. I don't have one and refuse to get one. Many states are now using photos on people's drivers licenses and such and putting them in facial recognition databases. I don't want the government to have a photo of me.