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HowieT3

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The biggest difficulty the Russians face in loading malware was that ...


the machines by and large sit in several thousand warehouses, powered off, and not connected to the internet for a good deal of the time. You really need physical access to the machines or to whatever is programming them with the ballot information to do anything to them.

I still think what we used when I lived in Howard County, MD, was the best - a paper ballot that you connected the head and tail of an arrow to vote for the candidate/initiative and a machine scanned and then stored the paper ballot as a backup.

(In response to this post by 111Balz)

Posted: 06/13/2017 at 09:15AM


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  Not a lot of time to fix this threat -- dajoka004 06/13/2017 06:51AM
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  How hard is it to have paper ballots with OCR scans? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 06/13/2017 09:40AM
  Isn't that last line the mantra of "The Chicago Way"? :-) ** -- Hoodafan 06/13/2017 09:26AM
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  Having these guys hanging around my polling place this a.m. was unsettling -- Tuckahokie 06/13/2017 08:24AM
  You were unsettled, how about wearing a leather jacket in this heat! ** -- 111Balz 06/13/2017 08:32AM
  I was thankful for the jackets (pic) -- Tuckahokie 06/13/2017 08:56AM
  Frankly, not sure why Bloomberg seems so sure that -- 111Balz 06/13/2017 08:05AM
  The biggest difficulty the Russians face in loading malware was that ... -- HowieT3 06/13/2017 09:15AM
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