Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds

Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by return-value on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:55AM (#18094415)

We don’t require ID as such. Every citizen is issued a little piece of paper that they can trade in for a ballot for that specific election.

We used to look people up in big books, that are printed for the occasion, to make sure their piece is valid and they haven’t already voted - which took a long time and led to queues. That’s the part we digitized.

But you can vote without ID as long as you have that piece of paper and know your birthdate.

I’m actually not sure how the homeless vote (they can’t receive the piece of paper), but I guess they probably do a mail vote at their local municipality.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by redorb on Friday September 28, 2018 @11:56AM (#18094429)

But there was some ID to get that piece of paper right?

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by return-value on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:02PM (#18094484)

Well, it’s sent to your address.

We do have a central registry of every citizen, so I guess that might scare some Americans.

You don’t need that though, you could pick up your registration at any municipality with your ID. That’s how I vote, I work from before the voting starts to after it closes, so I vote via mail.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by cobookman on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:13PM (#18094562)

> We do have a central registry of every citizen, so I guess that might scare some Americans.

US has same registry. It might not include every american but I'd be suprised if it doesn't have 99.99% of all Americans in it.

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