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Pre-2016 if you would have asked me "Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking?" I would have said "Absolutely yes." Post 2020 if you ask me "Are elec
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
Pre-2016 if you would have asked me "Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking?" I would have said "Absolutely yes." Post 2020 if you ask me "Are electronic voting systems vulnerable to hacking" my answer is still "Absolutely yes"
Weird so many people did some kind of dipsy-doo flip-aroo with elections in 2016/2020.
- MajorBee 6y agoHow about electronic voting systems backed by paper ballots?
- rzz3 6y agoDo you remember 2000 and the Diebold controversy? We had an Diebold engineer testifying on record about the deficiencies of these systems. I know it’s been 20 years, but I do think we need to take the integrity of our elections more seriously (and I say that being VERY happy that Trump lost the election).
- MajorBee 6y agoWell, I don't think anyone claims that electronic voting systems should be the source of truth for vote-count; it's mostly there for convenience and if there is any doubt at all about its integrity, the paper ballots can always (and often are) busted out to be counted by hand.
- rzz3 6y agoPaper ballots help, but it’s still not a properly secure system.
- lolc 6y agoBut the question is not whether they are vulnerable, but whether they were actually abused. Big difference. We have evidence of the former. And virtually no evidence of the latter.
- ed25519FUUU 6y agoThere’s almost no way you could know. Personally I don’t like our voting technology coming from Venezula but maybe that’s just me.
- lolc 6y agoI don't like the machines either. But you can't go from "could have" to "did" without evidence. Luckily where I live I get to vote on paper. It prevents such debates.