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But I'm glad we've mostly moved away from paperless voting machines. If you don't have that backup, you can be as suspicious as you want but there's nothing you
by DennisP 4y ago
But I'm glad we've mostly moved away from paperless voting machines. If you don't have that backup, you can be as suspicious as you want but there's nothing you can do about it.
And it's not like an attack is infeasible. According to a professor who specializes in this, testifying to Congress:
> “We’ve created attacks that can spread from machine to machine like a computer virus and silently change election outcomes."
https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/hacking-the-vote/ https://alumni.umich.edu/michigan-alum/hacking-the-vote/
- slg 4y ago100%, voting machines should at the very least spit out a paper copy that the voter can verify and can be manually recounted if there are any questions about the electronic total. Once we meet that baseline, I don't think it makes sense to worry too much about the voting machines. Our election process is much more vulnerable to manipulation through some of the other means mentioned in this thread.