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When all the votes are counted this year, Americans should have far more confidence their votes were tallied correctly than in 2016.
After that contest was upended by Russian interference, states vastly increased the number of votes that are cast with paper records that can be audited later. More than 90 percent of votes will have a paper record this year compared with about 80 percent in 2016.
States have also significantly improved how often and how scrupulously they perform post-election audits.
The changes have been especially significant in some of the states ... contested by Trump.
Georgia and Pennsylvania have both shifted from having paper records for few or none of their voters in 2016 to having paper records for all votes cast in their states — a protection security experts say is a bare minimum to ensure votes weren’t altered by hackers or miscounted because of a technology failure.
The Cybersecurity 202: More states now have paper trails to verify votes were correctly counted
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 12 2021, @08:38PM (9 children)
The only states that DON'T have paper trails for 2020: Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @08:57PM
The irony never stops with conservatives. 2016 they ignored all concerns about election security, stopped any legislation that would improve election security, and refused to acknowledge the very real voter disenfrachisment from Georgia's GOP purging voter rolls and a variety of other concerns around the country.
So far the GOP is the group destroying democracy the most, and as usual gaslighting everyone else to keep attention off themselves. Now they are driving their crazier followers to volent insurrection, and they still try and blame BLM and Antifa.
Party of Personal Responsibility folks dot dot dot dot dot
I can only presume all the assholes defending this shit around here are not drooling morons, they are actually seditious bastards who are 100% willing to use violence to achieve their political goals. We are going to die of iron poisoning.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:45PM (7 children)
Paper trails mean jack and shit, unless you consider the ability to create or destroy a piece of paper with data on it somehow beyond the capabilities of those wishing to commit election fraud. If you figure that that's how to do security, you are officially, explicitly disinvited from joining the admin staff.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:54PM (6 children)
Look at Buzzard desperately move those goalposts!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:17PM (5 children)
Oh? I seem to remember me saying for quite some time now that paper trails were all but meaningless and pointing out numerous means of committing election fraud with little or no danger of detection. And even had I moved the goalposts there, it still wouldn't be as absurd as comparing two elections and declaring one "the most secure ever!". And even if you were actually correct about it being "the most secure election ever!", that would be less meaningful than saying "the most secure Microsoft product ever!".
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by fustakrakich on Wednesday January 13 2021, @05:57PM (1 child)
Oversight of computer data is simply not possible, requires uncommon skills. I prefer that it remain human readable throughout the entire process, without electricity. Paper is still the most secure system we have. It can still be delivered by pony express and carrier pigeon
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:34PM
Even though our last election was completely backed by paper, I feel a whole lot less confident about it as the primary counting was moved to back office facilities away from local precincts. Signature verification, stated by the courts to the Trump campaign to protect against ballot box stuffing, was not performed.
The elections process was changed by the republican legislature and the democrat governor last November, before the p(l)andemic was much in the news. If the entire last year was a scheme to get politics back to usual, the republicans will have hurt themselves the most. The democrats just hold all the smarts and talent in PR and demagoguery at the moment, while half of America supports a disrupter of politics as usual like Trump.
(Score: 4, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:09PM (2 children)
"Ain't it funny how all us tech types went from saying electronic voting was so flawed in the US that every result should be assumed to be fraud to saying it's secure enough to blindly trust without a paper trail over the course of four years?" - The Mighty Buzzard [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:26PM (1 child)
Ruh roh, buzzlardo's idiocy coming home to roost. Like Trump there is probably an ironic TMB post for every stulid thing he says. Buzzy criticizes buzzy? Next week on Traitors'R'Conservative.....
On a side note, the more we are learning about the capitol hill insurrection the worse it gets. Glad TMB and Ruaway are here to explain how what we see with our own eyes is deep state something something.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday January 13 2021, @07:07PM
Remembering one whole month ago is like a superpower to Trump supporters.