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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. (thiswillhold.substack.com)

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Wait. This article suggests that a UPS was an attack vector.

Really?

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (8 children)

The most wtf part is using windows on a voting machine and the fact that windows trusts an UPS that connected via usb, I'm not sure how true it is but I'd kind of believe that, as usb is the best way to attack airgapped systems

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

The most WTF part is that you all use voting machines. In Canadian federal elections every vote is counted by hand, end of story.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

IMO there's nothing wrong with both.

Machine prints out paper ballot, properly inscribed with the selected vote so that there's no "ooh, but there's a smudge here that might mean a vote for X". It could also print out a 3D barcode that contains metadata such as time, place, machine, checksums, etc
Human who voted can verify the correct box is selected etc.
Vote slip goes into second machine where it's counted (or a box for later counts)
Paper vote slips are maintained for recount/validation purposes

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