US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at almost every level

Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by 3pt14159 on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:32PM (#18323354)

No the primary problem isn't selling votes. The primary problem is fabricating votes or people trying to destabilize an election by claiming they voted for someone else. If even 100 people come out and said their votes were changed what do we do? Re-run the election?

Just use paper ballots. This isn't that hard.

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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by perpetualcrayon on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:59PM (#18324443)

The way I look at it fabrication would be impossible if done right.

1) precinct has record of every eligible voter 2) voter can (via encrypted means) retrieve their vote so it's still "private", but the voter can view it after they've voted.

So as long as (a) the precinct confirms only eligible voter records are counted and (b) each voter can confirm their vote counted how they intended then I can't see how fabrication comes into play.

Granted this assumes the systems in place to onboard new voters is solid, but even if it's not breaches should in theory expose the weaknesses and make it possible for us to iterate toward an even more perfect system. By not exposing the core data it's kind of like "security through obscurity".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

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Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at... by perpetualcrayon on Sunday October 28, 2018 @10:08PM (#18324472)

Regarding "rerunning the election". As long as the process has integrity there will be a statistically insignificant number of people blaming the system for incorrectly tallying their votes. We have that today even though we can't see the results.

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