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Diebold-like machines are not used very much anymore, I think because of all the controversy over how easily they can be hacked. Most of the country uses paper
by burkaman 11y ago
Diebold-like machines are not used very much anymore, I think because of all the controversy over how easily they can be hacked. Most of the country uses paper ballots that are counted by machine.
Yes, polls can be wrong, but I think exit polls are rarely wrong. Another comment pointed out these can be wrong too though, so this might not be a useful point.
Yes, as I mentioned in another comment, if you want to hack a real election you need to take a long-term view and make electronic voting widespread.
- hackuser 11y ago> Most of the country uses paper ballots that are counted by machine. I'm not aware of this. Are you sure? Do you have any point of reference?
- burkaman 11y agoNo, I'm not completely sure. Here's a potential reference: https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state I will try to do more research tomorrow, because this is quite interesting to me. I voted with a paper ballot that I fed into a machine, and at the time I assumed this was the standard. Now I'm not sure.
- ams6110 11y agoLocal elections where I live (central USA) went from mechanical voting machines to electronic and recently back to paper ballots.
- SocksCanClose 11y ago> Most of the country uses paper ballots that are counted by machine. This machine then is the target, no?
- burkaman 11y agoOf course, but then it's much harder to secretly hack a machine when there are paper records to back it up. You need to tamper with the paper records, or be careful to only hack the machine in such a way that the paper records would not obviously prove fraud.