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West Virginia To Introduce Mobile Phone Voting For Midterm Elections (cnn.com)
West Virginians serving overseas will be the first in the country to cast federal election ballots using a smartphone app, a move designed to make voting in November's election easier for troops living abroad. But election integrity and computer security experts expressed alarm at the prospect of voting by phone, and one went so far as to call it "a horrific idea." CNN: The state's decision to pioneer mobile voting comes even as the United States grapples with Russian interference in its elections. A recent federal indictment outlined Russia's attempts to hack US voting infrastructure during the 2016 presidential race, and US intelligence agencies have warned of Russian attempts to interfere with the upcoming midterm election. Still, West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner and Voatz, the Boston company that developed the app, insist it is secure. Anyone using it must first register by taking a photo of their government-issued identification and a selfie-style video of their face, then upload them via the app. Voatz says its facial recognition software will ensure the photo and video show the same person. Once approved, voters can cast their ballot using the Voatz app.
Hacking aside.
The biggest issue I see, is it takes the privacy out of voting.
We should be able to vote without our pastor looking over our solders judging us, or a Union Rep who may decide that your department may be OK for a layoff so they can bring in other workers. A Boss who may just fire you on the spot...
Voting our conscious without direct personal repercussion is one of our basic rights. And one of our few powers that we have to actually change those who lead us.
So the question will be on voting day, how many Church Congregations, Union Meetings, will there be to show people how to use the app.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It would remove many of the traditional voter fraud issues.
Have to be a US citizen.
Have to have real photo ID and a real face to connect to that ID.
Address, age, birth date, place of birth, residence can then be discovered back into other state gov networks.
A "hacked" ID would not match a person. A random person would not match any of the data on the ID with a photo.
None of their other ID, face, tax, healthcare use, employment status, occupation, education, property tax, medical history, tax forms, any criminal/court history would match for that given "hacked" ID in that state.
A random face does not give an extra vote as they would have not history in that state.
The same face cant vote many times under new fake names.
Fake ID and shared ID, created ID for the election would be fictional/not fit with any other data sets in the state. That would have to fit with one real human face of the same age on the ID.
Election observers would see the count all over their state, so a later state wide computer hack would not work to create a new final tally.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
One needs only to look 2016 election when we should have Hillary but instead got TRUMP.
Except the fact that there's zero evidence that the Russians were supporting any particular candidate, right?
Since Obama knew about the "hacks" but did nothing, by your reasoning, Barack Obama colluded with the Russians to get Trump elected.
See how stupid that sounds?
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Therein lies the rub, doesn't it?
On the one hand, anonymous voting protects the voter from retaliation, but puts the entire process at risk of compromise.
"Named voting," conversely, puts the voter at risk but does a lot to secure the process.
Seems like paper ballots + presenting gov't issued photo ID to receive said ballot is a much better process in both ways.
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And, as a bonus, it would let you trace an individual face to a specific vote! Wow! What a great idea.
Oh, wait.
"We receive as friendly that which agrees with, we resist with dislike that which opposes us" - Faraday
This won't end well. Based on the news stories of how well most facial recognition works on African Americans it will probably only allow one black person to vote and ID the rest as the same person.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Stalin is reported to have said that "It doesn't matter who votes. What matters is who COUNTS the votes".
iPhones are in a walled garden run by Apple. Google controls Android phones. Will ballots cast for Conservatives be lost "by mistake" while traveling through their system?
Apple and Google are even now massively censoring and/or blocking any political content on their platforms except that posted by the Extreme Left. When called out on it, the excuse is always a "mistake" but such mistakes are made too often for that to be an excuse any longer.
A member of SJW, BLM, AntiFa, CPAUSA, RCP, DSA, SPUSA - of which Ms Ocasio-Cortez is a member, which are essentially indistinguishable from the "Liberal" Democrats, can post a racists screed on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, or other forum controlled by Leftists with impunity. The same post re-posted by Conservatives but with changes to the race of the ridiculed target are immediately blocked by social media for violating "Term of Service", if they give any reason at all. Even death threats by the "Liberals" are allowed on those social media platforms. The Blatant bias is overwhelmingly obvious.
Maxine Waters proved the meaning of the world "Liberal" with her infamous slip of her slippery tongue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
when she declared "this Liberal would be all about nationalizing US oil". She's now demanding that the Extreme Left chase down and harass Conservatives if found in public places. Next they'll demand that Conservatives where gold stars in public to make them easier to identify.
A South American "Liberal" who ran for office and later declared he was a Marxist after he won, Chavez, nationalized oil in Venezuela, after whipping up a class envy storm lathered with the promise of lots of government freebies paid for by oil. Venezuela, once the richest nation in South America because of its oil reserves, is now a classic Marxist hell-hole run by the Marxist Murado who, like Chaves, is always blaming America for his problems, just the way "Liberal" politicians in the major US metropolitan ghettos are always blaming Conservatives for problems of their own making over the last 50+ years the "Liberals" have been in power in those places. The same Venezuelans who voted for the socialist freebies have lost an average of 10Kg due to starvation. They have eaten up all their pets, the local birds, and nearby wild animals and are now desperately trying to leave Venezuela for better places. If the Marxist gain power in the US then many Americans will be loosing 10Kg as well, not just the obese.
Running with Linux for over 20 years!
Same with voting by mail here in Washington state. Twice my employer has asked for signed blank ballots.
Wow, that is seriously illegal.
Next time it happens, document it and put their ass in jail.
Yeah, but according to some, a simple common sense solution like this is apparently "racist" these days.......
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
The annual budget of the US government does not actually support that claim. Cheap, small government was abandoned to a small extent by Clinton, then ...
No. Reagan talked a great game about small government, but what he did was increase the size of government and greatly increase deficit spending.
Republicans only talk about how important it is to reduce government spending when they're not in power.
Medicare for all and ending the wars would both put huge industries and their lobbyists out of work, that's why they don't happen regardless of poll numbers. Truthfully it would cause a bit of economic chaos for a while if we stopped killing people / letting people die.
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Yeah, but according to some, a simple common sense solution like this is apparently "racist" these days.......
The irony being, of course, that claiming a certain race is incapable of getting a photo ID is, in itself, racist.
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