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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by azinman2 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:29AM (#20622714)
This is a feature not a bug. Fraud is rare, but barriers to minorities and the poor having say are a real concern.
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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by TylerE on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:57AM (#20622825)
I don’t really buy this. This is more an artifact of the US (insanely) not having any form of national ID.
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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by azinman2 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:39PM (#20626829)
It’s not for you to buy. This is a well studied, well analyzed area because the GOP wants voter ID laws to reduce minorities and the poor at the polls.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-vote...

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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by TylerE on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:53PM (#20627652)
Oh I know that.

To be clear what I don’t buy is voter ID having a suppressive effect iff we had an actual national ID

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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by hdfbdtbcdg on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:14AM (#20623849)
Plenty of countries have no national photo ID. UK, Norway and Denmark to name three in EU.
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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by acollins1331 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:45AM (#20623982)
What's so great about a national ID except more government control?
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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by colordrops on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:47AM (#20623098)
Why don't minorities and poor have IDs?
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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by esyir on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:53AM (#20623133)
Cause there's sizable opposition to government issued IDs.

IMO, it's bloody retarded that this feature is still non-present in the US, resulting in all the pseudo ids like driver's licenses and SSNs.

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Re:Darpa wants help cracking the election security problem by azinman2 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @12:40PM (#20626835)
Not everyone has a car, and if you don’t have a car, then you probably don’t have a passport, and if you don’t have a car or passport, then you likely don’t have a valid photo ID.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-we-know-about-vote...

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