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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!
(Score: 3, Insightful) by drussell on Friday October 07 2016, @03:19AM
Paper and pencil ballots with nice big circles beside the candidate names and party affiliation to place your mark in is the only sane way to do it.
Spend the money that would be wasted on the machines hiring more actual people to run more polling places and count / oversee counting the ballots.
Your (USA) current hodge podge of crazy systems is just pure insanity! Especially for a country that loves to pretend to the world that they are a shining light for democracy around the globe... GROAN!