At least 12 states (some are swing states) have significant use of electronic-only voting systems. Ohio has verification but it's garbage.
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Replying to @zeynep
It's disastrous for a democracy to not be able to fend of claims of vote rigging because we use crappy electronic systems in many states.
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Replying to @zeynep
Best way to counter fear-mongering is to take the oxygen out of anything shaky. Hence my op-ed: paper ballots now. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/14/opinion/campaign-stops/the-election-wont-be-rigged-but-it-could-be-hacked.html …
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Replying to @zeynep
A democracy's voting system job is not just to figure out who won, but to do so in a way that convinces the loser.
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Replying to @mattblaze
Exactly. It was a hard to write. There are overblown fears. But then again, Georgia is running Windows 2000, no trail whatsoever.
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Replying to @zeynep
Yep. When I did the voting system reviews in '07, I was struck by how awful the systems were, and yet how little evident fraud.
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Replying to @mattblaze
It is ... kind of striking, given the stakes. Local patchwork is protective. But this doesn't feel like that kind of year.
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Replying to @zeynep
The hypothetical I pose is this: if you have $1M to influence an election, better to spend that on ads or hackers?
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Replying to @mattblaze
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Yes, exactly. Chaos can be even more valuable to hostile state than picking winner.
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Another upside to optical-scan is you can vote under DDOS; power failure, etc. Just slower count (fine).
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