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Re:Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections th... by codedokode on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:42PM (#21382020)
What a nice and opaque technology. Bribe (or blackmail if you are from NSA) a developer or sysadmin and ask them to make so that every second vote for candidate A goes to candidate B and candidate B wins. It doesn't matter how people will vote, it only matters whom sysadmin chooses.
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Re:Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections th... by 9HZZRfNlpR on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:06PM (#21382225)
What if the voting mechanism is sll open source, simple image with has that is verified by many eyes. The international watchers and local ones can verify the machines at random by cloning the disk and comparing hash?
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Re:Voting machines pose a greater threat to our elections th... by codedokode on Monday October 28, 2019 @06:22PM (#21382377)
There are several solutions to the problem you have described. First, when the watchers appear, you can pretend that the machine got "broken" so they have to wait until it gets "fixed" (reflashed with original firmware). Of course, you can "fix" it once again after they leave. Second, you can make it return original firmware when cloning the disk for verification or store modifications in RAM only. Third option, you can have two disks, one with original firmware for verification and other that is actually used. Fourth option, you can install additional microcontroller and connect it to the printer so that it prints what you want instead of actual results.
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