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 jawilson2 on Friday September 28, 2018 @02:39PM (#18095869)

And in some states, like Florida, if you vote by mail it is 10x less likely to be counted.[1]

Our democracy is broken, and the people capable of fixing it are actively incentivized to keep it broken.

[1] https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-p...

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by kbenson on Friday September 28, 2018 @07:10PM (#18097755)

> And in some states, like Florida, if you vote by mail it is 10x less likely to be counted

The headline of that article is "If you vote by mail in Florida, it’s 10 times more likely that ballot won’t count". That's not equivalent to what you said.

If there's a 99% chance your vote will count and 1% chance it won't, a 10 times more likely to not count changes that to a 90% will count/10% won't count chance. Using your wording, it would change it to a 9% will count/91% won't count chance. Those are vastly different things.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by fortomorrow on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:50PM (#18096474)

The reason the majority of those ballots were rejected is because they didn't sign them.

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