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Re:Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability by pmoriarty on Sunday November 06, 2016 @12:58AM (#12883604)
It's much harder to undetectably destroy or alter large numbers of paper records than it is to do the same to digital records.

It's also sometimes possible to do this to digital records without ever being physically present in their vicinity. Once again, this is much harder with paper.

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Re:Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability by nitrogen on Sunday November 06, 2016 @01:55AM (#12883923)
It's very easy to forge paper records, though. I seem to recall reading about a rigged election in a questionable democracy where the ballot counters were given several file boxes full of fake ballots in addition to their local precinct ballots, with official anti-tampering seals intact.
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Re:Cylance Discloses Voting Machine Vulnerability by im3w1l on Sunday November 06, 2016 @02:51AM (#12884063)
So now you need a distribution network for fake boxes and people in the precincts that are in on the conspiracy. Such a large org is leak-prone.

Contrast that with a group of just 1-3 techies.

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