DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastructure [pdf]

Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr... by gumby on Monday October 01, 2018 @12:00PM (#18113912)

After California Prop 8 (vote for gay marriage! Where "yes" meant "prohibit it" and "no" meant "don't prohibit it") California adopted a measure where the AG has to verify that ballot measure titles are neutral.

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Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr... by sbov on Monday October 01, 2018 @02:52PM (#18115654)

The name of the prop actually wasn't confusing.

Initially it was called "California Marriage Protection Act", which is pretty common for anti-gay-marriage acts.

Later it was called "Eliminate Rights of Same Sex Couples to Marry". Which is 100% obvious.

Only people who lazily called it the "gay marriage prop" were confused.

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Re:DEF CON report on vulnerabilities in US election infrastr... by gumby on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @02:18AM (#18119204)

Thanks! I looked it up and the rewriting of titles preceded prop 8, though the prop 8 folks litigated furiously (amusingly they claimed the new title was "inflammatory" when it was actually text taken from the question).

I remember people being confused about the polarity of the vote, but then again I remembered incorrectly that the title approval had been because of prop 8 so who knows.

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