Harder to screw with those smart, RCV enabled voting machines without internet access.
Someone more easily identifiable might have to get his/her hands dirtier otherwise.
Voter ID is the LEAST of our problems.
Even if every voter is a legal voter, with these RCV enabled machines, Deep State can still steal elections.
We need to go back to dumb voting machines.
>>Key elements of the first federal technology standards for voting equipment in 15 years should be scrapped because language that would have banned the devices from connecting to the internet was dropped after private meetings held with manufacturers
The same manufacturers who deny pursuing such designs?
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The following restrictions should be adopted:
1) only a single port available to update a voting machine
2) that port should be double locked (one lock provided per party) and physically unable to be used while locked
3) locks should be applied right after certification of the device.
4) locks should be removed only in the presence of both parties.
5) The first action should be a backup/snapshot of the device when unlocked.
Other restrictions-
All devices to be purchased from US companies and manufactured on US soil
Possession of voting equipment without authorization should be a felony
Prohibit the importation of ballots
Possession of a ballot in any state or federal election without authorization should be prosecuted as a counterfeiting.
All ballots should be marked with manufacture, lot number and date of printing.
All ballots should provide an area where ballot devices can mark to indicate the machine (serial number), action (opened, read, tabulated, etc), and data/time of the action.
All tabulation equipment required to take a digital image of the ballot prior to tabulation.
Sure, just a few weeks after a quarter of the country was brought to a halt because some hackers extorted a pipeline. Prefect time to decalare that the internet is totally safe.
This is what people do when they don't care who knows they are rigging things.
I think we should all bring a taser next time we vote. Find a metal spot on the machine. bzzzzt.
Isn’t that special?
This must be fought in the courts before it ends up in the streets!
This must be fought in the courts before it ends up in the streets!
Voting machines need to be Open Source. Let the world see the code. They would run Linux. They also need to be built using common, standardized components that many many tech geek types are familiar with.
No networking ports or bluetooth or wifi. They can have a little printer similar to a cash register in size that prints out a tally. Election workers can call in the numbers via phone. (no thermal paper)
With AZ saying they need to throw out the machines that Cuber Ninjas touched and PA talking the same, it would be a good time for some entrepreneur to do a start up for making safe, simple, secure voting machines. Design them and have an ATM machine manufacturer produce them. Once a machine or set of machines are available. People can raise hell to get them put into use.
Hell, I took a bubble test at the end of the school year back in the late 70s to early 80s and remember them being adamant about us filling in the bubble nice and dark and solid so a machine could tally the scores. Now 40 years later they can’t figure out how to do the same.
Repeat after me....PAPER BALLOTS. NO Voter Fraud Machines Allowed!!
Voting machine software must be open-source capable of being examined before the election, monitored during the election, and examined after the election.
The software must register ONE MAN ONE VOTE. No fractional or weighted counting.
Proprietary voting machine software amounts to a secret, unmonitored tally of votes by a third party.
There should be no internet board, keyboard, wifi, or USB ports.
The computers should be locked in a steel box.
We should just go back to the machines with the big curtain.
If it's connected they can change the software and put it back the day of the election.
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Houston ,
I think we have a problem.
Looks like two of the four commissioners, including the chair, were Trump appointees. The other two from Obama:
https://www.eac.gov/about_the_eac/commissioners.aspx