Dutch will hand count ballots due to hacking fears
Source: Reuters
All ballots in the Netherlands' election next month will be counted by hand in order to preserve confidence in the electoral system after reports suggested its automated counting systems may be vulnerable to hacking, the government said.
Intelligence agencies have warned that three crucial European elections this year, in the Netherlands, France and Germany, could be vulnerable to manipulation by outside actors, including Russia.
...
He told broadcaster RTL that possible external actors included Russia. "Now there are indications that Russians could be interested, for the following elections we must fall back on good old pen and paper," he said.
The Dutch cast paper votes, which are tallied by hand locally. However, the regional and national collation of vote tallies are done electronically.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-election-cyber-idUSKBN15G55A
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)speak a foreign language that they don't understand. For 2018, we'll see more intensified use of compromised voting machines and a very hackable vote counting process, JUST BECAUSE.
For the GOP, why change what works? They won't go for anything remotely approaching "integrity in elections." They WON with the system we have. What more would they want? Do you think they'd want a change that might lessen their chances of total dominance? Are you kidding?
byronius
(7,369 posts)ailsagirl
(22,842 posts)diva77
(7,606 posts)nt
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)Not.
triron
(21,916 posts)Javaman
(62,442 posts)ret5hd
(20,435 posts)ananda
(28,783 posts).. Republicans.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)of the world will depend on the results of those elections. If they manage to reject far right populists, EU will survive and it may prevent the new global order. Putin will stop at nothing to have Le Pen elected. No budget limitation. And watch out for wikileaks.
diva77
(7,606 posts)it's not a glamorous topic and it doesn't have a good visual or headline to go with it -- ie it's boring, but it is because we have computerized voting & tabulating in the US that we have a majority of Repubs in House, Senate, and as President, and governors, and secretaries of state in each state. Our elected politicians DO NOT reflect our values. THIS IS THE HOUSE OF CARDS upon which the disasters we have been facing in this country are built.
The fact that the Dutch can see that is SOOOOO IMPORTANT!!!! We need to make this go VIRAL!!!!! WE NEED HAND COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS AT PRECINCT LEVEL WITH PUBLIC OVERSIGHT if we are ever going to repair our broken political system.
triron
(21,916 posts)but any attempt at hand counting in many states will be blocked
by Repukes
orangecrush
(19,237 posts)Than we have.
starshine00
(531 posts)unlike our idiot behinds...will we ever be in the category of the smart people who understand reality...
diva77
(7,606 posts)Campaign trail: computer counting, armed drones and 13 million voters
Election
February 15, 2017
snip...Counting computers Computers will be used to do the final vote counting after the March 15 general election, home affairs minister Ronald Plasterk told MPs on Wednesday. Plasterk had said computers would not be used after broadcaster RTL showed the counting software could be easily hacked. Main polling stations will, however, be allowed to use spread sheets to reach the final vote tallies per district as long as the computer are not linked to the internet, Plasterk said. ...snip
Read more at DutchNews.nl: Campaign trail: computer counting, armed drones and 13 million voters http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2017/02/campaign-trail-armed-drones-and-13-million-voters/