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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) by NotSanguine on Friday October 07 2016, @07:32AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Friday October 07 2016, @07:32AM (#411391) Homepage Journal

    There is nothing wrong with a hand marked ballot that can be read by machine.
    The voter can see it in her hand and check it.
    The machine can count it.

    That's exactly.how we do it in my state. Although, these days we let the men vote too.

    At least that's how it is now. We used to have these wonderful old machines where you'd pull a big old handle with a red grip from right to left to move the actual paper ballot into place behind the console. Then you'd flip levers to make your choice, and once you'd confirmed you'd chosen what you wished, you pulled the big old handle back from left to right, which recorded your choices on the paper ballot. Even cooler was that the first time you pulled the lever to set the machine, it closed a curtain behind you so you had privacy. When you'd pulled the lever to record your vote it reset the levers and opened the curtain. I miss those rickety old machines. Sigh.

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