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NeedToUseYou -> RE: Russian media thinks US election is fixed (1/17/2008 4:11:37 AM)
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I don't know if the elections are rigged but I know it is possible.
It super retardly easy to make a mostly non-hackable system.
Here's how .
Keep the computers, after each vote a randomized alphanumeric number is randomly generated tied to your vote, it spits out a receipt for you with your long random alphanumeric random number on it(no trace back to identity) unless you have access to the core database. This is easy to do. Then you take all those computer recorded votes and make a copy of the database public excluding the personal fields but leaving the voting record. At something like www.checkthevote.gov (don't think that's a real address). There you can download the whole database, that contains only the alphanumeric randomly generated number and the votes record associated with that random number, the city, county, State were the vote was recorded and the voting location.
So, after you vote the next day you should be able to go to the website and check your vote to make sure it is there for one, to make sure it is accurate, and to see the entire number of votes cast.
With a system like that. Well for one you'd know your vote was being recorded correctly. Two, you'd be able to search for weird spikes in the votes, in certain voting locations(probable fraud). You'd get 1000's of people independently pouring over the rolls trying to find fraud.
It'd be way way harder to subvert the vote. And cost virtually nothing to do such a thing. The only reason they don't expose it like that I can think of is because they want the ability to tinker in obscurity if necessary.
Of course there still would still be some fraud but way less and way more apt to be exposed.
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