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luxmesa t1_j825rev wrote

Okay, so the technology they want is a write-once drive to replace the reusable drives they use to collect results from the voting machines. The idea is that if a drive can only be written to once, then you can guarantee that the data hasn’t been tampered with once it’s been copied from the machine. There’s no evidence that something like this has happened, but even if it had, couldn’t you pull off the same thing by getting an entirely new drive and just swapping it with the real one?

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view-master t1_j829yfo wrote

And here’s the thing. The USB drive is encrypted, the paper ballots are locked away and provide a separate record of the votes to compare against. If an election official delivered a USB drive that didn’t match what the actual ballots show(has never happened) they would go to prison. No sane person would try that.

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Captain-Griffen t1_j827lsj wrote

  • Write once

  • Impossible to hack

  • Never messes has technical issues

  • Easily verifiable

Sounds like a job for pen and paper.

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RepeatOffender21 t1_j8njcdq wrote

Yep, and then complain when the results aren't done that night since it'll all be hand counts.

Sounds like fun.

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