FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by blasteye on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:15AM (#12382387)

Just have a SMS message texted to voters once their vote is counted with a link to a scan of their paper ballet. Would make voter fraud a bit harder as each person could validate their vote was correctly counted. If the voter doesn't get their SMS, then provide a 1800 number for them to figure out what happened. This would only stop the changing and non counting of a real voter, but does not stop fake voters from adding their vote....which would need a diff fraud protection scheme.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by pjc50 on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:18AM (#12382405)

Voters must not be allowed to prove to others how they voted. That's also a disaster scenario of a different kind. Not just vote selling but voter intimidation.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by crack-the-code on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:24AM (#12382463)

"If you vote Bob for President and provide proof of your vote, we will give you a free iTunes gift card!"

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by glaslong on Monday August 29, 2016 @11:27AM (#12382503)

"We're a Bob for President family, through and through. Everyone get out there and vote, then show me the receipt."

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by monocasa on Monday August 29, 2016 @02:54PM (#12384242)

"Hey, did you know that if you forward your receipt to this website with a bitcoin wallet address, they'll send you as much as $20 depending on how you voted?"

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by ianferrel on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:56PM (#12383741)

Hasn't that ship sailed?

We're all carrying cameras into the voting booth.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by brassic on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:14PM (#12384415)

Here in the UK you can ask for a replacement ballot paper if you make a mistake.

So you vote for candidate A, photograph it, swap it for a replacement ballot, vote for B, photograph it, etc. and get paid by all the candidates.

Except the candidates know that a photo of a ballot paper proves nothing.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by pjc50 on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @04:47AM (#12388397)

Yes, although (in the UK) it's an offence to photograph your ballot paper and the voting privacy screens are pretty minimal.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by losteric on Monday August 29, 2016 @01:28PM (#12383513)

How would that prevent voter fraud? I could send you a confirmation for voting one way despite counting your vote differently in the aggregate.

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