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The Guardian has a story detailing the firing of Christopher Krebs, who served as the director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa)
President Trump made the announcement on Twitter on Tuesday, saying Krebs "has been terminated" and that his recent statement defending the security of the election was "highly inaccurate".
CISA last week released a statement refuting claims of widespread voter fraud. "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history," the statement read. "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Krebs, is a former Microsoft executive, and was appointed by President Trump after allegations of Russian interference with the 2016 election.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday November 22 2020, @06:21AM (10 children)
So what do you have in mind to make voting and tallying absolutely trustworthy in spite of untrustworthy computers and untrustworthy poll workers?
And what leads you to trust that that system has been implemented correctly and without subversion?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 22 2020, @02:29PM (9 children)
Being able to verify that your own vote was counted and was correctly counted would be a good start. That's dead simple to do without coupling your identity to your vote. You create a single-use identifier for each ballot cast. Not a crypto hash, a 32bit number would do just fine. You print it out on two copies of the paper ballot, one for recounts and one for the voter. The only metadata saved for that number should be the polling place id, a timestamp with a intentionally poor resolution (fifteen minutes, an hour, whatever's necessary to not be able to tell whose vote it is by the timestamp), and the votes themselves. Then you upload all of the collected data to a torrent file or similar for anyone to do a recount any time they like.
That's just me spitballing off the top of my head. I could come up with something quite a lot better if I actually gave it any real thought.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Sunday November 22 2020, @06:20PM (8 children)
Then marvel as kooks come out of the woodwork for the next 4 years with fake ballots that they claim were 'lost'.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday November 23 2020, @12:20PM (7 children)
Kind of difficult to do if you can check that your vote was accurately registered as soon as you cast it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday November 23 2020, @06:41PM (6 children)
How in the world does that prevent someone from fraudulently claiming that they cast a ballot that wasn't counted?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday November 24 2020, @02:19PM (5 children)
Same way you prove email came from the person it says it did. Cryptographic signature on the receipt.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday November 24 2020, @08:20PM (4 children)
You've passed the point where many qualified voters no longer understand how it works and so have to trust the downloaded software.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 25 2020, @03:26AM (3 children)
Verifying the validity of a ballot was never going to rest on the voter's shoulders. They already know if it's valid or not since they cast it. The signature is so someone else can verify that it's not a forgery.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday November 25 2020, @06:45AM (2 children)
So the voters are expected to trust those verifiers who actually understand how it works and Swear to God it DOES work?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday November 28 2020, @11:57AM (1 child)
Nope. And if you have to ask that, please never get into security of any sort beyond the Mall variety.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday November 28 2020, @06:48PM
So you'll need to come up with something they actually understand that actually allows them to not need to trust those machines and people.