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People are surprised by how "wrong" the pollsters are, but hackable voting/vote-counting machines could account for the discrepancies in this and previous elect
by pmoriarty 6y ago
People are surprised by how "wrong" the pollsters are, but hackable voting/vote-counting machines could account for the discrepancies in this and previous elections, both in the US and abroad.
Until machines are taken out of the equation, I find it difficult to consider any election legitimate.
The general public could swallow this because they're completely clueless about computer security, but I'm surprised HN readers would be so trusting of these machines when there's been expose after expose (many of them landing on HN's front page) about how vulnerable they are.
- nathanaldensr 6y agoI don't think they are trusting, in general, but things are easier to overlook or rationalize when the results go in one's favored direction.
- GhostVII 6y agoHas there ever been any evidence that vote counting machines in the US have been hacked? I don't like electronic voting either, but I think it's pretty extreme to delegitimize every election over something we haven't actually seen happen. Only 8 states use electronic voting anyways.