[PLUG-TALK] Open source hardware?
Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
Tue Aug 14 13:59:46 UTC 2018
On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> We have open source hardware for voting; its called paper
> ballots.
The Oregon system is good at optimizing for small-scale fraud while
making large-scale fraud very difficult. That is, it's relatively easy
at the household level for one family member to submit a ballot on
behalf of another, but doing so alters only one or two votes per "work
unit of fraud" and is unlikely to affect an election with any degree
of certainty.
Large-scale election fraud in Oregon would require hacking core
computer systems (not just voting machines in the precincts) and quite
probably suborning multiple state employees. It's not an impossible
task, but it would likely require a fairly large conspiracy. Even
then, there would be a paper trail subject to a manual recount.
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Paul Heinlein
heinlein at madboa.com
45°38' N, 122°6' W
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