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In reply to the discussion: Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away [View all]DFW
(54,372 posts)58. They're already easy to hack
My brother, who does stuff for DARPA, told me ten years ago, "give me a cell phone and a laptop, and I'll make any e-voting machine give you any result you like."
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Meet the e-voting machine so easy to hack, it will take your breath away [View all]
LiberalArkie
Apr 2015
OP
Same here! Often proprietary code, none allowed to look. It's ridiculous! Way too much
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#26
It's a fucking travesty. I cannot understand how this is acceptable to the citizenry of our country.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2015
#44
Yep, that's the bottom line of it all, TPTB don't care if we like it or not. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#47
I'm sure the GOP governors will be buying up the used machines on Craigslist to use themselves
tomm2thumbs
Apr 2015
#9
Paper ballots. And a federally constitutional amendment avowing right to vote.
Dont call me Shirley
Apr 2015
#11
Paper ballots. Hire a few more people to count them, democracy demands a just accounting.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#14
No computers. Pen and paper. Scan with human eyes, record and store with human hands.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#16
people are corrupt that is why it is ussually an insider doing the fraud
questionseverything
Apr 2015
#38
No volunteer counters. Professionals trained by a non-partisan, non-political election commission.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#21
And I forgot...a paid day off for all registered voters on the bi-annual National Election Day.
Fred Sanders
Apr 2015
#30
as i understand it you are saying because a roll of paper was attatched
questionseverything
Apr 2015
#74
Yep, it's a perpetual déjà vu as we wander in the same ruts with seemingly little
RKP5637
Apr 2015
#28
Since no one is interested in fixing it that can fix it, are there any counter hackers standing by
lonestarnot
Apr 2015
#31
URL: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/09/24/us/replvoting600.jpg
blkmusclmachine
Apr 2015
#43
technocrats say that to preserve democracy, we must spy on citizens and count votes in secret...
whereisjustice
Apr 2015
#69