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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by dismantlethesun on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:37PM (#31673687)
In this case it looks like you could bribe the volunteers to simply give ballots without checking for ID, then bribe the overseers to validate the fraud.

So long as the people who’s votes you are stealing don’t come in, then you are safe.

There are no systems safe from fraud if you allow human judgment to be a part of the system.

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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by Izkata on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @08:26PM (#31676233)
> So long as the people who’s votes you are stealing don’t come in, then you are safe.

There's a pretty good chance of being safe even if they do come in: https://nypost.com/2020/11/03/houston-woman-turned-away-from...

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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by hef19898 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @04:58PM (#31674053)
elections are as fraud save as they are because you have humans in the loop. Hundreds of them, all over the place. And it is not judgement, but decentralized supervision that solves this problem for you. Not some flimsy electronic system without auditable paper trail.
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Re:Former U.S. congressman, operative pleads guilty to elect... by dismantlethesun on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:14PM (#31675066)
Hundreds of humans who can all work for a single individual or organization. Without any additional rules, adding more people to supervise is simply security theater.

Note, I am not a general proponent of electronic voting machines either. They can easily make fraud easier by reducing the number of people to bribe to the few engineers with access to the blackbox code and the few officials who certify that the code is valid and was used on Election Day.

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