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In 2016, I bought two voting machines online for less than $100 apiece. I didn't even have to search the dark web. I found them on eBay.
Surely, I thought, these machines would have strict guidelines for lifecycle control like other sensitive equipment, like medical devices. I was wrong. I was able to purchase a pair of direct-recording electronic voting machines and have them delivered to my home in just a few days. I did this again just a few months ago. Alarmingly, they are still available to buy online.
If getting voting machines delivered to my door was shockingly easy, getting inside them proved to be simpler still. The tamper-proof screws didnt work, all the computing equipment was still intact, and the hard drives had not been wiped. The information I found on the drives, including candidates, precincts, and the number of votes cast on the machine, were not encrypted. Worse, the Property Of government labels were still attached, meaning someone had sold government property filled with voter information and location data online, at a low cost, with no consequences. It would be the equivalent of buying a surplus police car with the logos still on it.
https://www.wired.com/story/i-bought-used-voting-machines-on-ebay/
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Nothing ever surprises me anymore. I hate voting on ballot reading machines, especially when you don't get a confirmation receipt showing who your vote was tabulated for. Thankfully, at least in this region of Canada, the only place I've seen electronic voting is in the recent municipal elections.
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diva77
(7,643 posts)slim margin these days because the rethugs cheat so shamelessly. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE vote as well as working to return to paper ballots, hand marked and counted at the precinct level with public oversight.
sinkingfeeling
(51,460 posts)precincts almost un-noticed. I believe this was done by Russia in 2016 to hand the election to the Con.
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)just go back to his speeches...
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)w/ a witness signature. secure. BUT, how is it counted?
eleny
(46,166 posts)The takeover of our state governments is how it got started here in the USA. Now we have to take it back at that level because we were too dumb to see it happening before our very eyes until it was almost too late.