True, but you can make fraud a lot more difficult

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Larry J — 7/15/2004 7:05:07 PM (archived)

The technology I'm talking about is off-the-shelf and has been used for years on some military systems. You can make it very difficult to tamper with electronics. You can use standard error detection protocols from telecommunications technology to ensure more accurate results. There are procedures that would make tampering a lot harder to hide.

While we can't make any election 100% fool or fraud proof, we can do a hell of a lot better than we're currently doing. It isn't that difficult, but despite spending a lot of money, we've squandered the last 3 years, so none of this will be in place this year. Hell, they haven't even fixed the problem with military absentee ballots. Someone deserves to have their ass kicked, then get fired.

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Tamperproof electronic voting - alcaray - 7/14/2004 6:47:08 PM
- Enter password, etc. solutions will far exceed the ability of cretins baffeled by a butterfly ballot (n/t) - p - 7/14/2004 7:44:11 PM
  - You only need enough people doing it to keep the system honest, oh partisan prince. (n/t) - alcaray - 7/14/2004 11:15:56 PM
- There might be a simplier technique - Larry J - 7/14/2004 7:40:46 PM
  - Don't make it any harder than you have to. - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2004 2:12:00 AM
    - Making a big hairy deal because we want to design something that is Brosz-proof - alcaray - 7/15/2004 4:03:44 PM
    - Funny things have been known to happen to ballot boxes - Larry J - 7/15/2004 2:20:09 PM
      - You're never going to eliminate fraud entirely - Tom Brosz - 7/15/2004 6:03:17 PM
        
        True, but you can make fraud a lot more difficult - Larry J - 7/15/2004 7:05:07 PM

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