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Re: Voting Security

shogunx@sleekfreak.ath.cx Mon, 16 September 2019 00:32 UTC

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To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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A few point to indicate that in practice, electronic voting apparatus is 
an idea worth abandoning:

Exit polling anomalies:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/clinton-does-best-where-voting-machines-flunk-hacking-tests-hillary-clinton-vs-bernie-sanders-election-fraud-allegations/
Testimony from programmer who wrote vote flipping code:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyl_YNA8Hs
'Hacking Democracy':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YldIdkjrqM


On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, Keith Moore wrote:

>
>> There is a vast literature here. I would be happy to talk more about it 
>> with anyone interested in a more synchronous medium (I'll be in SIN for 
>> 106). It doesn't seem to have a lot of relevance to issues at IETF, unless 
>> I'm missing something.
>
> Thanks very much for the references.   Agree that it probably isn't strictly 
> relevant to IETF's work, but I'm sure many of us are interested.
>
> Keith
>
>
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