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Elon Musk condemns the use of electronic voting machines (EVMs) used in general elections in some countries. (lemy.lol)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But is scantron voting electronic voting? Is mail in voting and early voting electronic voting? Is being ID'd on the voter registry because you know your SSN and address, name, signature, without having to use yet another ID electronic voting?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I think the supposed risk to electronic voting machines is that there would need to be thousands of them, are distributed, somewhat unattended, and operated by people that don't know them.
    The possibility of an exploit or misconfiguration increases, and the ability to compromise someone supervising one of the polling station increases.
    If there is are centralised systems, fewer higher skilled people would be required to secure/monitor/run the system. It can also be airgapped.

    While some of these risks are also applicable to in-person and mail-in voting, these systems have been around for ages, are not proprietary, and anyone can figure out "how it works" and can make sure "how it happened" matches.
    As soon as you get into cryptographic vulnerabilities and security, 99.99% of people would be lost in the woods

    The rest of the questions, I feel, are more systematic things.

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