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I'm not sure how it's handled now, but what I'd like to see is after the election closes, a random method to select poll locations is used -- such as a lottery
by gregmac 8y ago
I'm not sure how it's handled now, but what I'd like to see is after the election closes, a random method to select poll locations is used -- such as a lottery ball machine -- and those locations are then required to do a manual recount. No one has advance notice of which poll locations will do this, so there's no opportunity for cheating (eg, turning off a defeat device at the locations that will be audited).
If there are any differences in the count then additional locations are required to also do a manual count, and if more than two locations have differences, all electronic numbers are trashed and the whole election is counted manually.
- CobrastanJorji 8y agoIn order to defeat this system, the attacker would need control of the lottery ball machine. But we're already assuming that the attacker has control over some of the election machines, so while this is still strictly better, it's small comfort.
- stonesixone 8y agoThis is basically what San Francisco, CA does. They use 3 10-sided dice to randomly choose 1% of ~600 precincts to manually audit. You can watch the random selection for the June 2018 election here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSLlBkFY-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLSLlBkFY-Y