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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by saxonww on Saturday November 02, 2024 @06:11PM (#42029575)
What do you do when duplicate serial numbers start showing up? I'm assuming you won't know who was issued which serial number, and if it's truly randomized you wouldn't even know where they were sent.
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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by Cthulhu_ on Saturday November 02, 2024 @07:09PM (#42029911)
Then you have clear proof of election fraud and the FBI, NSA, etc can get to work. Invalidate the election results and do a new one.
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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by macintux on Saturday November 02, 2024 @08:45PM (#42030370)
> Invalidate the election results and do a new one.

The chaos that would ensue from this is staggering.

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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by zo1 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @03:56AM (#42031923)
Much better to just deny it till after the new government is in, then make a nothing-burger out of all the news that is reported "afterwards"? Meanwhile, 50% of your country is disenfranchised for X-years because it was "less chaos" to just accept the vote and move on.
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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by artificialLimbs on Saturday November 02, 2024 @09:05PM (#42030459)
'Just do a new election' is not a valid fallback.
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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by kmoser on Saturday November 02, 2024 @10:07PM (#42030713)
Not valid why? Lack of political will, or logistically unfeasible?
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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by ImPostingOnHN on Saturday November 02, 2024 @09:12PM (#42030484)
How would they "get to work"?

And your proposed resolution means someone could DoS an election by copying their ballot and submitting it.

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Re:Colorado scrambles to change voting-system passwords afte... by SubiculumCode on Saturday November 02, 2024 @11:32PM (#42030982)
For one duplicate?
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