Re:'It's easier to hack an election than eBay': confessions ...
by VLM on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:27PM
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"in Wisconsin"
Wisconsin has unhackable optical scantron 80s/90s voting technology.
Its unhackable because the votes are electronically counted and reported after the polls close in minutes, hours at most, then the physical paper ballots can be slowly and methodically counted and compared to the electronic counts. You could probably stick an eprom in there that reports 2e32-1 votes for Hillary or whatever, but that "hacked" result isn't going to last more than an hour, maybe a day at most.
Wisconsin has unhackable optical scantron 80s/90s voting technology.
Its unhackable because the votes are electronically counted and reported after the polls close in minutes, hours at most, then the physical paper ballots can be slowly and methodically counted and compared to the electronic counts. You could probably stick an eprom in there that reports 2e32-1 votes for Hillary or whatever, but that "hacked" result isn't going to last more than an hour, maybe a day at most.