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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by EGreg on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:44AM (#19356938)
And how do they verify every single signature on every absentee envelope?

I think that, once you start there, you will see that you can compromise those just as easily as a bunch of random iPhones.

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Re:In Estonian parliamentary election, 44% of the votes were... by jedberg on Monday March 11, 2019 @01:59AM (#19356989)
They pull the physical signature card from when you registered and compare them by hand. Then they have a second person do it another room.

I think you're too enamored with technology to see that in this case it isn't being luddites about it that is the problem -- it's that very smart people have tried to solve this for a long time and come up with nothing.

It may be time to admit that the hundreds of security professionals with thousands of years of combined experience may just know more than you about election security.

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