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0 pointslordvon6y ago0 comments

Fraud should be prevented. Inaccuracies should be improved.

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bavell6y ago· 2 in thread

It seems the best way to do this is to move away from in-person voting.

As has been demonstrated at DEFCON for years now, voting machines used in dozens of states are laughably insecure and easily tampered with. Mail-in ballots would be much more difficult to pull off large scale voting fraud with due to their distributed nature.

AnthonyMouse6y ago

Don't they still use the same voting machines for the mail in ballots?

And the distributed nature is the problem. At the polls you have representatives of both major parties there to make sure nothing untoward is happening. How are you supposed to secure something that happens literally anywhere?

jimsug6y ago

I don't know whether the distributed nature is a problem, though.

Voter intimidation is a lot easier, for example, if you know where and when to turn up.

You would probably find it easier to tamper with a voting machine if you know where they're going to be, and if more people have access to them, too.

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