[ExI] I wish this was fake news

[Dave Sill]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:14 PM, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:

>
>
> There is one thing I have persistently suggested, elimination of all
> electronic voting machines.  Now we have a case where both sides in
> American politics agree they were hacked.
>

There's plenty of evidence that Russia tried to influence the election, but
I haven't seen much in the way of actual voting machine hacking. Not saying
it didn't or couldn't happen...


> So both sides should agree we need to get rid of every last one of them,
> ja?  It’s a bipartisan issue.
>

If the Russians helped Trump, how likely is he to try to prevent that in
the future?


>   I have long considered them dangerous: first time an election comes out
> looking really suspicious and the machine vote disagrees with the paper
> ballot, we have a very well-armed nation at odds with itself.
>

I don't think we need to get rid of electronic voting machines but we do
need a paper trail and substantially improved security measures and
auditing. Honestly, I don't know why we don't have an open source project
handling this. With a block chain we should be able to do online voting
securely.

-Dave
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