We won't take back Congress in 2018 unless we do this
Get rid of computerized voting & computerized tabulating!!!!! Return to hand marked paper ballots and hand counting of those ballots at the precincts. It's a catch 22 for an elected official to do anything about our voting systems too!
The burden of proof needs to be switched from having to prove fraud occurred to proving that a machine cannot be hacked. And it is much harder to prove that a machine CANNOT be hacked.
How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
With Russia already meddling in 2016, a ragtag group of obsessive tech experts is warning that stealing the ultimate prize—victory on Nov. 8—would be child’s play.
By Ben Wofford
August 05, 2016
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144
The Princeton group has a simple message: That the machines that Americans use at the polls are less secure than the iPhones they use to navigate their way there. They’ve seen the skeletons of code inside electronic voting’s digital closet, and they’ve mastered the equipment’s vulnerabilities perhaps better than anyone (a contention the voting machine companies contest, of course). They insist the elections could be vulnerable at myriad strike points, among them the software that aggregates the precinct vote totals, and the voter registration rolls that are increasingly digitized. But the threat, the cyber experts say, starts with the machines that tally the votes and crucially keep a record of them—or, in some cases, don't.
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