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36 of 50 States Have Installed Sensors at 'Elections Infrastructure Level' To Monitor Computer Systems Managing Voter Data or Devices (reuters.com)
A majority of U.S. states has adopted technology that allows the federal government to see inside state computer systems managing voter data or voting devices in order to root out hackers. From a report: Two years after Russian hackers breached voter registration databases in Illinois and Arizona, most states have begun using the government-approved equipment, according to three sources with knowledge of the deployment. Voter registration databases are used to verify the identity of voters when they visit polling stations. The rapid adoption of the so-called Albert sensors, a $5,000 piece of hardware developed by the Center for Internet Security www.cisecurity.org, illustrates the broad concern shared by state government officials ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, government cybersecurity experts told Reuters. [...] As of August 7, 36 of 50 states had installed Albert at the "elections infrastructure level," according to a Department of Homeland Security official. The official said that 74 individual sensors across 38 counties and other local government offices have been installed. Only 14 such sensors were installed before the U.S. presidential election in 2016.
Paper Voting is subject to corrupt officials, but generally hard to hack wide scale. Further, voting irregularities are easier to spot. And verification of vote tallies are easy.
With Electronic hacking, there is no way to verify vote tallies that have been tampered with at the machine level. And since those machines are electronically connected it is much easier for ONE hacker to affect a large range of voting tabulations, perhaps enough to change the outcome of state and national elections.
Paper Ballots are the worst of all voting methods, except all the others.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Hell Fucking No!
There is a REASON why elections are managed locally. It is much harder to establish a tyranny if you have to hack 174,252 precincts individually than if you could do so from the Federal Level. A problem at one precinct is bad, but contained. problem at the Federal Level means we have Obama or Trump elected for life.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
In Oregon we vote by mail, and we use paper ballots that are optically scanned by the computer.
They can be re-scanned, they can be hand-recounted, no hanging chad. No booth, but you can hand-deliver your ballot if you want.
QR code? Why did you just insert a non human-readable step?
What we want is computer-assisted voting. You go to the big touch-screen voting machine with pictures of the candidates faces and whatnot, and when you're done it prints a clearly market ballot. You then review the ballot and cast it into the ballot box.
This is so freaking obvious that I can't ascribe good motives to politicians imposing any other system.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.