May 13, 2018 • Most electronic voting machines don't create a paper trail but voting officials in Austin are trying to marry the convenience of electronic machines with a paper trail that can be audited.
Former KSU Center for Elections Director acknowledged under oath in deposition that
our voting machines do not have an independent audit trail of each vote cast
While virtually all such complex systems have bugs, few computer systems seem to inspire the degree of sanguine faith in their reliability that
voting machines do for their owners.
On Wednesday, Grant went back to court seeking a ballot by ballot count from the election, claiming the voting machines didn't count some ballots for her and the legal fight at the Board of Elections is costing her votes with Kennedy less than 300 votes ahead.
Not exact matches
Michigan
does not have an audit system, but it's important to note that the state's residents
vote on optical scan
machines, a type of
machine that's considered less vulnerable to hacking than the paperless, touchscreen
machines used in some other states.
But according to the NSA report, evidence that the hackers were also stealing the login credentials of people with administrative access to the voter - registration systems raises concerns that the Russians were able to
do «anything they wanted» — including, Bardin said, breaching
voting machines.
The same «damned if you don't but possibly way more damned if you
do» situation is manifesting itself in a wildly different way when it comes to Russia's hacking and cyber espionage on US political institutions, voter rolls and even the cyber probing of American
voting machines.
After we were
done voting (which was only a few minutes, thanks to the electronic
machines), all the kids got «I
Voted» stickers and we took pictures outside of our
voting location.
California
did try
voting machines, and they are still an option (every precinct has a
voting machine, and you can request to use it, but paper ballots are the default), and it works somewhat similarly, in that the election officers give voters a card that activates the
voting machine, and the type of ballot is recorded on that card.
It's hard to believe that the makers of optical scanners (a) didn't anticipate the possibility of double
voting and (b) couldn't write a simple software patch (even now before the election) to reject forms with double
votes when the voter feeds it into the
machine.
And he argued that by dismantling a
vote - winning Labour
machine, the current leadership were
doing the Tories» job for them.
Do you really believe, in that return to a more strongly tribal politics, which party is best placed to mobilise 40 % of the vote, with the ground machine and the funding base to do tha
Do you really believe, in that return to a more strongly tribal politics, which party is best placed to mobilise 40 % of the
vote, with the ground
machine and the funding base to
do tha
do that.
He noted that the elections board must verify that
voting machines operated correctly and
did not produce any false results.
Although the new
voting machines have reported some discrepancies from the Election Day tally, there
does not seem to be much of a partisan lean to the errors, something Mr. Fidler would have needed to overcome his deficit.
As the midterm congressional primaries heat up amid fears of Russian hacking, 1 in 5 Americans will be casting their ballots on
machines that
do not produce a paper record of their
votes.
The answers should be different as
voting machines guarantee some basic details that online
voting systems
do not guarantee, as an example you can say that every voter at a
machine has been authentified as being eligible to
vote, something you can not be sure of with an online
voting system.
Please don't start lengthy discussion about
voting machine security, constitutional amendments or corruption in the democratic party.
They didn't hack into the
voting machines to change the
vote tallies and
votes are still cast by Americans.
Do voting machines software used in the USA use file hashes in any way to determine if the...
Nick Stamoulacatos, the supervisor of social studies for the Syracuse City School District, said it is the first year they are
doing a districtwide mock election using
voting machines.
This necessitates that members sign their names to their ballots in the convention — and several anti-Wright sources worried to the Observer that this could influence their
vote, as a number either hold jobs at the city Board of Elections that the county
machine has influence over, or have relatives who
do.
Someone
did, but not before some other people switched strategy from earlier absentee
voting to actual
machine balloting.
Well, NOPOLITICS, beside the fact that your reference at the end is too cryptic to understand what you're talking about, (though it seems you're somehow attempting to disparage Hein's 55 percent to 42 percent victory as being an unconvincing win) the first part about the
machines taking more time for «closing
voting» doesn't seem at all correct as it's computerized.
Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern said Blackwell should step aside because his office is responsible for the rules that govern county election boards that had scattered problems last Tuesday, including poll workers who
did not know how to turn on new electronic
voting machines.
Several Bronx residents mentioned the system was corrupt and they don't want the Bronx
machine empowered with their
votes.
«But much like our electronic
voting machines, our digital scans and other things, there was pilots
done on those before we moved to those.»
During that election, more than 18,000 of the 143,532 ballots cast on the e-voting
machines in Florida's Sarasota County
did not register a
vote for either candidate.
Just
voted for Lydia (hope is it on time; the
machine did accept my
vote).
November Third William Lewers In this sequel to the novel Gatekeepers of Democracy about elections and poll keepers, William Lewers, M.A.T.» 66, looks at the struggle that his main Gatekeeper protagonists face when they realize something is amiss with the
voting machines in their district and they need to
do something about it.
Margin trading might seem like the brilliant thing to
do when prices are rising but the randomness of prices in the short term — the market «
voting machine» — can be costly.
Over what period
does the market turn from being a
voting machine into a weighing
machine, as Ben Graham so eloquently put it?
Ben Hunt @epsilontheory suggests it's a
voting machine over any time horizon — and he may be correct (and he's a lot smarter than me)-- but I, for one, still think that fundamentals actually must, and
do matter.
I don't mind being wrong, and we all are from time to time... but in the short term the market is just a
voting machine... (to borrow a Buffett).
Don't trade so much, and let Ben Graham's weighing
machine work for you, ignoring the
votes that go on day - to - day.
The
machines that are the most successful at
doing this at any given time and circumstance are supreme: images that «break the Internet,» that change policies and sway
votes, that «create» social behavior.
No matter who you support, and no matter whether you think your
vote doesn't matter, or even that you think the election is already rigged in the
machines (and I think I'm cynical sometimes...) please, please, please get out there and
vote.
Surprisingly, Cox
does not now work for a
voting machine company now (she is President of Young Harris College in Georgia), as so many other election officials
do so immediately upon leaving office — the most recent being PA's Sec.
Did you know our «Dominion
Voting» has purchased two of the US
voting machine companies.
Does using
machines with such vulnerabilities violate constitutional or statutory rights to
vote?
The central issue is that Virginia's touchscreen equipment, known as direct - recording electronic (DRE)
voting machines,
did not produce a paper trail — one of the most robust if old - fashioned safeguards against potential
vote tampering.
An attacker might be able to
do this directly through the modem to the
voting machine, or infect the election - management system on the other end and install malware that gets passed to
voting machines when officials program future elections.
Although overwriting the
machine's firmware, or
voting software, would be difficult to
do in just a minute, Stauffer says installing malware on the underlying operating system would not.