8 states continue to use paperless ballots in 2020 despite security risk

[Dangermouse]

Did a little poking around. Appears you are incorrect. The answer is more like zero.

The "hacking of voting machines" that is sometime cited typically requires taking physical possession of the machine itself and breaking into it manually.



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Unless it was a machine with remote access built in, which counted 60% of the votes...

A major election software maker allowed remote access on its systems for years

Have they adapted? Who knows?

 

[Libertine]

Many, if not most. Even machines that use a paper ballot are typically downloaded to a central server via an Internet connection for the vote tabulation.

Typically the votes are tabulated locally, by county and precinct. The voting machines and tabulating machines are never connected to the internet. Tabulations are phoned in, and then files with tabulation results are transmitted to the state via secure network. Result aren't certified for a few weeks as the process is audited and verified.

The paper records of every step of the process and results, along with the actual voting machines and electronic Tallies are kept locked away for audit in the event of the election is contested.

 

[NightSwimmer]

Swing State Voting Systems Were Left Connected to the Internet for Months, Report Says

 

[Libertine]

Unless it was a machine with remote access built in, which counted 60% of the votes...

A major election software maker allowed remote access on its systems for years

Have they adapted? Who knows?

Way back in 2000, and it didn't happen.

 

[NightSwimmer]

There is only one reason for a person to oppose paper ballots.

 

[Libertine]

Swing State Voting Systems Were Left Connected to the Internet for Months, Report Says

So again, something disputed, that didn't and couldn't really have happened.

"Vice has not reported that the systems’ vulnerability was exploited to interfere with voting, though it could be possible. A focused attacker would be able to intercept results being transmitted wirelessly and send fake results in their place, the publication says. ES&S points out that these wirelessly-transmitted votes would not be official results, which are hand-delivered on hardware memory cards. "

But is good for a click bait headline.

 

[NightSwimmer]

So again, something disputed, that didn't and couldn't really have happened.

"Vice has not reported that the systems’ vulnerability was exploited to interfere with voting, though it could be possible. A focused attacker would be able to intercept results being transmitted wirelessly and send fake results in their place, the publication says. ES&S points out that these wirelessly-transmitted votes would not be official results, which are hand-delivered on hardware memory cards. "

But is good for a click bait headline.

There is only one reason for a person to oppose paper ballots.

 

[Libertine]

There is only one reason for a person to oppose paper ballots.

To provide clear, clean, and accurate election results is the main reason.

Opposing hanging chads and humans making judgement calls on erasures and mis-marked ballots is a couple more.

Why don't you guys in the tin foil hat brigade go out and work a few elections to see how it really works?

Elections are administered by bipartisan boards and the programming, audit, and tallying of all voting machines is open to every candidate on the ballot to ensure everything is on the up and up.

 

[NightSwimmer]

There is only one reason for a person to oppose paper ballots.

 

[Dangermouse]

Way back in 2000, and it didn't happen.

In 2004 the Diebold CEO promised to deliver a Bush victory in Ohio.... His machines did just that.