The problem isn't that it's likely the elections will be rigged or that a foreign power will hack them—but the mere suspicion is dangerous.
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Replying to @zeynep
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 @zeynep
how about elections in Saddam's Iraq? Were the losers convinced?
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Replying to @halvarflake @mattblaze
::shudder:: to those methods. Sooo, Russian, American and Saddam's teams asked to find dangerous tiger in forest.
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Americans deploy satellite imagery, infrared googles, simulations of tiger movements, capture tiger in two days.
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Russians, well, raze the forest, capture tiger in one day.
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Saddam's team out in two hours, dragging a raggedy goat, screaming: "Yes, yes, I'm a tiger. Please stop. Yes tiger."
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(Fill in your MENA country; heard it it many). Anyway, that method of convincing works, also tends to be fragile...
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