Judge refuses to block New York 'ballot selfie' law

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2. When I voted in MD in 2008, there was a sign prohibiting video cameras in the polling station ...

I thought that was strange, and asked one of the poll workers for the reason behind it. She told me that the state govt. had warned that some electronic devices could generate RFI which could affect the voting machines. I've never heard anything more about this, but it left me wondering ... if you could find a way to screw up the machines with a powerful RF signal, then all you would have to do would be to go into precincts known to vote the "wrong" way and scramble their votes. Even if you had no real control over the details, just by the law of averages you would tip the balance away from the favored candidate in whatever precincts you acted.

Just another reason to avoid electronic voting machines.