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The project Protect Democracy is suing the state of South Carolina because its insecure, unreliable voting systems are effectively denying people the right to vote. The project has filed a 45-page lawsuit pointing out the inherent lack of security and inauditability of these systems and concludes that "by failing to provide S.C. voters with a system that can record their votes reliably," South Carolinians have been deprived of their constitutional right to vote. Late last year, Def Con 25's Voting Village reported on the ongoing, egregious, and fraudulent state of electronic voting in the US, a situation which has been getting steadily worse since at least 2000. The elephant in the room is that these machines are built from the ground up on Microsoft products, which is protected with a cult-like vigor standing in the way of rolling back to the only known secure method, hand counted paper ballots.
Bruce Schneier is an advisor to Protect Democracy
Earlier on SN:
Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States (2018)
Want to Hack a Voting Machine? Hack the Voting Machine Vendor First (2018)
Georgia Election Server Wiped after Lawsuit Filed (2017)
It Took DEF CON Hackers Minutes to Pwn These US Voting Machines (2017)
Russian Hackers [sic] Penetrated US Electoral Systems and Tried to Delete Voter Registration Data (2017)
5 Ways to Improve Voting Security in the U.S. (2016)
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Penetrated State Election Systems (2016)
and so on ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:02AM (2 children)
Blockchain, dude, blockchain.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:32AM
Ethereum! Then it can be a series of contracts!
(Score: 5, Interesting) by edIII on Sunday July 22 2018, @02:11AM
Actually, no. The benefit of stamping OTP onto both side of the metal tag before splitting it, is that the level of math required to verify it is elementary school simple. Just add up every number, or treat at is if it needs to be equal strings.
The danger of a blockchain, or conventional cryptography is that we need a very small percentage of our population to verify it. So small, that it wouldn't be possible to verify it all even if that were their full time jobs. It has to be something simple and accessible by the masses, which given the piss poor state of America across the board, necessitates a rather low bar. Addition might be too much, which is why just verifying the first and last 10 digits as the same would probably be LCD for America at this point.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.