echodot comments on Trump officials asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine — and not disclose any vulnerabilities they found

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It's classic America. Have an overly complicated stupid system that doesn't work, and is inherently unsafe, but don't fix it because doing so would require some billionaire to lose a revenue stream.

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[–] ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

That didn’t quite answer the question. I said county not country. I’m in America, elections are run at the county level usually.

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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Depends on the state/county contract. The ones they had in KY and PA didn't provide any sort of paper backup when I lived there. They just seemed to be a touchscreen with a custom UI.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The US doesn't have a system. Elections are run/supervised by the county and regulated by the state. That makes for a robust system that pretty much can't be subverted, no single throat to choke.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Electronic voting has been compromised multiple times in the United States so that's demonstrably untrue

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[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think the point was that maybe a system gets subverted but because everyone does it different what you did in that state doesnt always affect every voting place

There's no 1 spot to cheat everyone.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 point 3 weeks ago

When and where? I'm not thinking about a single example. ?

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