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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by monocasa on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:14PM (#18096190)
You realize that the article in question is about hacks against vote tabulating machines right?
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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by hvdhh7 on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:45PM (#18096445)
I do.

But a non-hacked vote tabulating machine will still do the job better than non-hacked humans.

Add a high enough percentage of random hand audits of the machine but counts to ensure they're functioning correctly, and you should get a reasonably high confidence that you have the most accurate count.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by moviuro on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:50PM (#18096473)
> Add a high enough percentage of random hand audits of the machine but counts to ensure they're functioning correctly, and you should get a reasonably high confidence that you have the most accurate count.

Defies the purpose of electronic machines completely. Why use machines + lots of auditors, when just more counters (worth less than auditors) could do the same job, with a much higher cost to corrupt?...

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by monocasa on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:47PM (#18096450)
But why? The number of humans to count votes scales linearly with the number of votes cast.
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