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This horse seems to have left the barn. A significant portion of politically engaged people in the US and other countries will never believe electronic voting i
by motohagiography 5y ago
This horse seems to have left the barn. A significant portion of politically engaged people in the US and other countries will never believe electronic voting is legtimate again. Interesting that Bruce Schneier is a co-author, and the paper seems timed to be positioned for a reckoning about the integrity of those systems, and perhaps a justification of them because an election with physical integrity could have had problematic results.
- WalterGR 5y agoHow is it both a reckoning and at the same time a justification of conspiracy theories?
- motohagiography 5y agoUnsure how a technologist with any understanding of security questioning the integrity of electronic voting could be considered a conspiracy theory, instead of the default position on which the integrity of the most important election in the world is based. The entire history of elections is defined by the mechanisms for corrupting them and the rituals used to preserve their integrity and proof of chain of custody. The burden of proof is on the election authorities and using electronic systems did everything we predicted it would, which is sow the discord that results in civil unrest. When you take the integrity of that process away, the results are predictable.
- kokanator 5y agoJust as an interesting note. Here is Bruce Schneier stating that electronic voting systems by their nature are not secure and it is possible votes were hacked in the 2016 election ( by Russia ): https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-system-remains-vulnerable-6-months-before-election-day-what-now https://www.npr.org/2018/05/08/599452050/the-u-s-voting-syst...