Heat map of election hackability

by Brian Enigma on October 20, 2008 10:34am

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The website "dvice" has a nice clickable map of the states and what sort of voting equipment they use--and consequently how prone to hacking and software bugs they all are.  Click a state to see what kind of equipment each district uses and a little more detail on the systems.

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I have to say that I rather like Oregon's 100%-vote-by-mail system, but they dinged it for things happening out of the public eye.  I'm not completely sure how accurate that is because last time I heard, the tallying gets done over in the elections building on... Morrision? Belmont? and that has lots of glass walls that allow the public to see the proceedings, strict handling procedures, and citizen/volunteer oversight of each step in the process.  Or maybe that is just for county stuff...?

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1 misterconnolly October 20, 2008 3:07pm at 3:07 pm

I would really like to see all elec­tronic vot­ing done away with.  Insti­tut­ing elec­tronic mea­sures such as bar codes or secure keys to ver­ify unique­ness are more than fine, but flip­ping a few bits is just too easy.

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2 Scott October 21, 2008 5:03pm at 5:03 pm

Prov­ing once again, I live in the great­est state in the union (New York, that is).  I really love our lever pulling sys­tem.  The machines give such a reas­sur­ing sound.

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