[spirited irish]

Change election outcomes?!? What say you Freepers?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

More reason to use paper ballots.

They are immune from cosmic rays.

[PeterPrinciple]

For example, in 2003 in the town of Schaerbeek in Belgium, an SEU malfunction gave a candidate in a location election 4,096 additional votes - and the error was only caught because the candidate got more than was possible, so it was investigated.

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not human error.

[PeterPrinciple]

But trying to prevent this problem is very difficult - as it would require a wall of concrete more than three metres (10 feet) thick to stop the particles.

So Professor Bhuva suggests making a computer processor in triplicate as a safety back up.

This is the same system that NASA uses for their computers in space.

The probability that SEUs will occur in two of the circuits at the same time is vanishingly small,’ Professor Bhuva said.

‘So if two circuits produce the same result it should be correct,’ he said.

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election solution

[dfwgator]

"Gremlins... You got-you gotta watch out for them forgeiners cuz they plant gremlins in their machinery. It's the same gremlins that brought down our planes in the big one. Y'know their still shippin them over here. They put em in cars, they put em in yer tv. They put em in stereos and those little radios you stick in your ears. They even put em in watches, they have teeny gremlins for our watches!"

[Tench_Coxe]

"These changes can be enough to cause a computer to freeze and reboot, affecting the outcome of computerized elections."

Let me guess. Since 2020, these events are happening every two years.....

[Honest Nigerian]

Like ... man ... they can even change chromosomes from X to Y. And then back from Y to X.
The can even make poop taste like peanut butter. And the reverse too (if logic still works).;->

[Ciaphas Cain]

It should be absolutely criminal to use any voting system other than paper ballots. What is the rationale for why voting must be electronic, anyway?

[mountainlion]

Paper ballots are a given but also paper tally of the votes. paper books have been working for centuries.

[logi_cal869]

...and can even change the outcome of elections, scientists say

Funny how cosmic particles always vote demoncrat...

[ConservaTexan]

Democrat cheating is the more likely explanation.

[Bratch]

[I want the USA back]

I worry more about democrat election workers twiddling those bits rather than random particles from space.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Who you jivin’ with that cosmic debris?

[rightwingcrazy]

Their parity is somehow flipped to Democrat upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere.

[Seruzawa]

Right. Somehow millions of cosmic particles changed Trump votes to Biden. Sure. You bet. I buy that.

[nwrep]

CECILE BORKHATARIA?

[dragonblustar]

What kind of bs is this?

[tomkat]

.. causing election votes to be miscounted .. scientists say

I hope the day comes when we can see all these shameless lying bastards hanging from trees, lamp posts, etc.

[ridesthemiles]

Another reason to count ballots BY HAND