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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Yes, exactly. Chaos can be even more valuable to hostile state than picking winner.
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Matt, why isn't that in your bio?
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He's an example of these machines exploited in practice: http://www.crypto.com/blog/vote_fraud_in_kentucky/ …
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And on the cheap, too. It's ... just unfathomable. There are such workable alternatives.
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This year may be when voting officials' & vendors' dismissals of concerns raised by technologists come back to bite us.
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A close presidential election with paperless voting machines probably fed further instability in Brazil.
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