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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by admax88q on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:13PM (#13024971)
Seems harder to exploit manual counting of paper ballots than the firmware of some closed source system that's poorly understood by those deploying it.

The larger the election, the more manual counters you will have. Which means the more people you would have to influence in order to rig an election.

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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by ComodoHacker on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @04:22PM (#13025922)
Ironically, Russia is particularly good at it.
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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by blobbles on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @05:13PM (#13026208)
Manipulating a manual ballot process is easy. Just stuff some ballot boxes. Doing so without leaving evidence all over the place is really hard.

Widespread vote manipulation of electronic systems much, much easier to keep a secret.

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Re:To Know If the Election Was Hacked, Look at the Ballots by makomk on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @06:54PM (#13026788)
Russia tends to leave a massive trail of evidence when it rigs its own elections. It's just that Putin has enough of an iron grip on the Russian press and political system that it doesn't matter.
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