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diva77

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4. Unfortunately, Ballot Marking Devices are not an improvement - same problem
Wed Feb 27, 2019, 03:22 AM
Feb 2019

of votes being non-verifiable exists, plus the usual electronic voting machine vulnerabilities such as undetectable installation of malicious code.

excerpt from article link in OP:

Georgia Tech computing professor Richard DeMillo testified last week that electronic ballot markers were hackable.

"What we're concerned with is that some unobservable piece of technology will get between the formation of an intention in the voter's mind and the indelible transfer of that intention to a piece of paper. That is where the hack occurs," DeMillo said. "A hand-marked paper ballot imposes no intermediate technology."


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