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Re:Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day by jlmorton on Saturday July 07, 2018 @04:33PM (#17480415)
If there is no online voting, why is the system even connected to the Internet? What exactly are the attacks against? The voter registration site? The election results site?
Re:Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day by bschilke on Saturday July 07, 2018 @05:29PM (#17480707)
From what I understand the greatest vulnerability is modification of voter registration data. If you show up to vote and they don't have you in that district's voter rolls because your address was changed to another state, your vote has just been taken away.
Re:Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day by jlmorton on Saturday July 07, 2018 @05:46PM (#17480784)
If this is the case, it begs the question why voter registration data is directly connected to the Internet. Yes, we want to allow online registrations and modifications, but surely we could have a batch process to make changes to the canonical source, with a signed log of changes.
Re:Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day by hrktb on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:17PM (#17480936)
Could you clarify how you would see these batch data transfered outside of the internet ?

We are speaking of dispatching that data to every single voting stations, set in schools, small town offices, etc. Most "secure" solutions (private lines, central update and physical dispatch of the machines days before the elections, etc) seem difficult and/or crazy costly to me.

Re:Utah voting system fending off 1B hacking attempts per day by zaroth on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:36PM (#17481056)
There’s such a thing as a provisional ballot.

For all the studies that show voter fraud is not prevalent and a complete non-issue, we can say even more certainly that “election hacking” is an even more egregious smoke screen.