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 davidcbc on Friday September 28, 2018 @03:14PM (#18096196)

Voter suppression is an actual real world problem that happens today, not a hypothetical problem like the one you are worried about. Allowing voting by mail is an improvement to that real world problem as it reduces the barriers to voting for those that are employed in jobs that don't give time off for voting or who don't have transportation to their voting location.

Voter intimidation is already illegal and there is no indication that it is a legitimate problem in the states that have postal voting.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by kevin_thibedeau on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:21PM (#18097167)

Vote buying is also illegal and vote-by-mail makes it easy to document your ballot to get the promised kickback. This is logistically difficult for national elections but for local office it is much more likely to succeed.

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by davidcbc on Friday September 28, 2018 @05:37PM (#18097269)

Is there any evidence at all that vote buying is a problem in US elections?

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Re:Voting Machine Used in Half of U.S. Is Vulnerable to Atta... by tstrimple on Friday September 28, 2018 @06:02PM (#18097419)

No, but why worry about actual problems when you can make up excuses to disenfranchise people!

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