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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by hanniabu on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:01PM (#19394265)
Seems like burning an orchard for a few bad apples. It's this really that large of a concern vs voter fraud?
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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by snowwrestler on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:27PM (#19394492)
Yes. The U.S. originally did not use secret ballots in federal elections and we switched to them because of widespread coercion.

A durable record that maps votes to voters does not prevent voter fraud, it enables it.

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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by 50korangutang on Monday March 18, 2019 @07:54AM (#19420333)
Postal voting allows the same type of fraud, so an electronic system would only be as vulnerable as our current system in this respect.
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Re:DARPA Is Building a $10M, Open-Source, Secure Voting System by OrgNet on Friday March 15, 2019 @08:53AM (#19399201)
computers enable easy mass voter fraud... so we need to stay with paper ballot or we need a way to see if our vote is in the total number of votes, coercion aside...
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