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The only correct answer should be hack them. But hack them in a way that's so obvious and outrageous nobody will ever try to claim they're "good enough" or "the
by close04 8y ago
The only correct answer should be hack them. But hack them in a way that's so obvious and outrageous nobody will ever try to claim they're "good enough" or "the only way forward".
- sshagent 8y agoThis i like. Reminds me of the Blackadder politics/voting episode where despite there being 1 voter there is 16,472 votes. Some result where 10 times the voters all vote for one candidate.
- close04 8y agoAny result where one candidate can have a landslide win with 120% of the votes.
- jimhefferon 8y agoGeorgia just had all these things happen, including one precinct with a 243% turnout. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/georgia-defends-voting-system-despite-243-percent-turnout-in-one-precinct/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/georgia-defends-... No outrage appeared.
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- simias 8y agoI'm sure that even if you're doing it with good intentions getting caught hacking voting machines could put you in a lot of troubles. If people here seriously want to try that make sure you understand the risks you're taking.
- maxden 8y agoI think an effective way of doing it would be to make numbers very close to an expected result but they have a simple mathematical relationship to each other, so they get widely published and aren't picked up straight away and hidden, and then show that they are all divisible by 46 or something.
- dwiel 8y agoYou would just be labeled a conspiracy theorist for pointing out such a coincidence.
- tetha 8y agoYou just gave me the mental image of a worm which targets voting machines and has them run pacman or space invaders. Bonus points if it quickly re-infects machines, or persists in ways they cannot remove. That'd be something to launch during a major election. It's illegal and dangerous to whomever does this. But at some point, nothing but blunt disobedience works.
- ataturk 8y agoMy theory is that exactly what you suggested was done in the 2016 election. The remaining patriots at the NSA and other places knew about the massive fraud and got together and fixed it right under the noses of the corrupt. That is my theory and in probably 20 years the history will be finally told after it all gets declassified.