Re:Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With ...
by TallGuyShort on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @06:40PM
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Is that really what happens? I would hope that if enough votes to come within a margin of error of changing the outcome were thrown out, the ballots would be re-cast. Or is there enough anonymity to make that impossible?
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Re:Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With ...
by azernik on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:16PM
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This is absolutely doable, and is really the logic behind most current physical election security procedures. Procedures are designed less to prevent tampering than to make tampering obvious. Re-voting can theoretically be done, because (public, real-time) records are kept of who voted at a particular polling place, not counting provisional ballots - look outside for a "street index" at your polling place.
(Source: am volunteering for the second time working the physical polls.)
Re:Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With ...
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday October 18, 2018 @06:04AM
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I'd guess that repeating a vote favours whichever party has a particular demographic (younger?, less employed??) or whichever is better funded (to encourage/assist getting to polls) that subsequent votes get less and less attendees?
So, forcing a revote might be a way to swing a marginal seat in your favour.
Re:Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With ...
by michaelchisari on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:03PM
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As far as I know, elections can't be redone on a federal level. I could be wrong, but I certainly don't know of any situations where they have been.
Re:Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With ...
by azernik on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @07:21PM
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They absolutely can be: see https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/..., specifically the section of the US code that speaks to "Failure to make choice on prescribed day" and "Determination of controversy as to appointment of electors". Basically - if for any reason a state can't pick electors on election day, it can do so afterwards by whatever (constitutional) method it desires; and if there's a disputed election and a state has a (pre-election) law enacted for deciding controversies that law just has to come to a decision within 6 days before the electors meet.