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Rigged or Hacked Voting Machines

Orphia Nay

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This is going to be coming up at some point, so to set things off, a few links:

Jennifer Cohn on Diebold/Premier/Global/E&S/Dominion white collar crime & computer tampering, and current types of voting machines used in the USA:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1115650020710072325.html

(Note, Georgia is currently debating what machines to get.)


Harpers, "How to rig an election":

https://harpers.org/archive/2012/11/how-to-rig-an-election/


And somewhat of a counterpoint (compulsory voting and paper ballots in Australia):

A history of compulsory voting in Australia (and why we are so good at elections)


Discuss voting machines and the 2020 US election.
 
I should dig up all my old posts about Ohio's Ken Blackburn using Diebold voting machines when the owner said outright he supported GW.

I don't understand how the citizens of Ohio and these other states don't scream bloody murder about their proven-hackable voting machines.
 
Since we’re going crazy with the voting practices, I’m going to throw in ranked choice voting in there, too.
 
Craig4 said:
I'm given to understand voting comes with a sausage breakfast in Australia. Is this true?
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We hold barbecues at polling places. You can get a sausage there. Some polling places are public schools, so they make a day of it - a school fundraising fete. Not only sausages but lots of other yummy stuff.
 
Paper ballots that can be counted by hand are a good start. Real election security requires one additional step.

Require a statistical audit of the election results. If the margin of victory in a statewide race was 10%, a hand count of 100 randomly selected ballots would be enough to confirm the winner. A race with a margin of 3% would require a hand count of about 2,000 randomly selected ballots.
 
Random voting: 100 people are randomly selected by a computer, and they alone get to vote. A great saving of time and money.
 
Kestrel said:
Paper ballots that can be counted by hand are a good start. Real election security requires one additional step.

Require a statistical audit of the election results. If the margin of victory in a statewide race was 10%, a hand count of 100 randomly selected ballots would be enough to confirm the winner. A race with a margin of 3% would require a hand count of about 2,000 randomly selected ballots.
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Statistical audit?

There's three kinds of lies, isn't there? Lies, damn lies, and statistics? Something like that?

Government should not reduce to statistical shenanigans.
 
Voting machines, ok so long as there is a paper back up.

Compulsory voting, no.

Automatic registration, hell no, though it pretty much exists everywhere I've lived.

Rank choice voting, I like that idea a lot.
 
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