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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @03:21AM
> I'm afraid this time it's you that's off kilter. Hanging chads are caused by voting machines. Frojack makes no mistakes here.
They are caused by old, poorly designed machines.
> (which thanks to living in a small town almost never have a line).
And there is your problem. Do you even live in the USA? Most american elections are complex, with tens to hundreds of races and when the turnout is the lines move very slowly and mistakes happen a lot more frequently.
You've got some pastoral utopian version of voting that simply does not apply.
(Score: 2) by t-3 on Friday October 07 2016, @05:15AM
Umm no. Where I live, in a suburb of Detroit, voting is handled just as he described. I've even worked at the polling place when I was younger, the process is very simple, orderly, and foolproof. Maybe everyone where you live has their head stuck up their ass but some areas know how to make shit work and get things done.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday October 07 2016, @12:52PM
That is quite an exaggeration. American elections are not complex. Once in a while you might have to vote on a judicial candidate in addition to a president, city councilman, or state office, but it barely ever scratches a dozen races to choose from at any point in time.
I have lived in Brooklyn, NY, for coming on 20 years and have been very deeply involved with local politics during that time; I vote in every election so I am what campaigns call a '1,' those voters they heavily court. I have never seen the ballot complexity you assert. In fact, I can count on one hand with fingers left over the number of ballot initiatives that have appeared--it's simply too hard to get them on the ballot because the requirements are too tough (a key ingredient in New York City's endemic corruption, but that's a different conversation).
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 15 2016, @04:48AM
> That is quite an exaggeration.
False. And I mean really fucking false.
In 2012 Illinois had nearly 400 county level referenda on the ballot - and Cook county (chicago) had over 50. [ballotpedia.org]
Michigan had 400 referenda [ballotpedia.org]
California had about 300, [ballotpedia.org] but Los Angeles County had about 50 alone. [ballotpedia.org]
Ohio had 1500+ [ballotpedia.org] looks like at least 20 on most ballots, the more populous counties easily had 50. [ballotpedia.org]
So I don't know what a "1" is but I do know you are full of shit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 07 2016, @05:59PM
I said I lived in a small town, but it's how they vote in the big city as well.