Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by richardknop on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:58AM
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I question the results of these studies. I think it's very difficult to measure empirically how many people are cheating if it is not required to have voter ID / some sort of proof of your identity when voting.
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Re:To Protect Voting, Use Open-Source Software
by maxerickson on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:33AM
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Have you read the unnamed studies?
Presumably at least a few of them anticipate the easy problems and design a methodology appropriate to dealing with them.
For instance, if voter ID is highly effective, you'd expect much higher rates of double votes under a given registration in places that don't require it (unless the cheaters are masters of anticipating registrants that aren't going to vote).