11-06-2020, 12:44 PM
(11-06-2020, 12:39 PM)Stewy Wrote: Seriously? You have to ask this? The answer is "Hackers". That isn't paranoia, it's fact.
Aside from, who's going to develop it? Pay for that development? Design for maximum security (and that still won't be enough), then pay and distribute all the technology to all the states for vote tallying? Who's going to pay for all that?
Texas' (dominantly Republican) changes to voting this year during Early voting:
Paper Ballots specially associated with your ID - you then personally feed into a voting machine
Make Choices as per normal voting
machine Spits your "card" ballot back out
On your way out you feed the ballot into a separate machine that is disconnected from any computer or computer network.
Took 3 minutes total
Very slick IMO, but those pre-cautions are there for a reason and it's because hackers can hack ANYTHING. You want to destroy the voting process? Have it go 100% digital. F'ing chaos will ensue.
Ehh, this is a little too far in terms of how susceptible it is. The biggest issue, like with most "hacking" isn't people forcing there a way in it is idiots giving their information away. One way to do this though would be using blockchain-based systems and I think there is some real potential down the road in such a system.
