'Hacking Democracy'

[livingston]

Hacking Democracy - The Feature Documentary, Official Website

The film the voting machine corporations don't want you to see. HACKING DEMOCRACY proves your vote can be stolen without a trace. Watch it here

www.hackingdemocracy.com

The film the voting machine corporations don’t want you to see.

HACKING DEMOCRACY follows tenacious Seattle grandmother / investigator, Bev Harris, and her band of extraordinary citizen-activists as they set out to answer one simple question: How does America count its votes?

Proving America's votes can be stolen without a trace culminates in a duel between the Diebold corporation's voting machines and a computer hacker from Finland – with America’s democracy at stake.

 

[Blimey]

I think it's like most crimes: it's not super difficult but for various reasons doesn't happen as much as one may think, for reasons such as it's a significant crime.

I've looked up ballots a little and it seems like not every ballot has a unique ID, which is pretty surprising to me. If I were running a system like this the very first thing I'd do would be uniquely ID each ballot with a barcode, register that with my printers at time of ballot creation, and then subsequently when ballots are cast that unique ID is sent back to my system. With each ballot recorded being tied to a single unique ID, it means that it's impossible for somebody else to print fake ballots because they are not registered in my system. And, if they duplicate existing ballots, when the ballot is cast I can quickly determine if a ballot has been recorded twice, which means either the original, or subsequent submissions were fraudulent. This could all be done in a manner to ensure it's not possible to tie that unique ID to a person's actual vote. It could be done in a way to ensure complete anonymity, though at some point it would need to communicate with a centralized system of record.

 

[FRB]

Look up how Brazil gets it done. America is without excuse. How we vote is a national disgrace. Mass mail in voting should NEVER EVER BE ALLOWED! One vote one person - NO PROXY harvesting votes: YOU GO IN PERSON TO VOTE or request an absentee ballot for SPECIFIC REASONS!

And voter ID is the starting point to a system that works.

 

[drowhawk]

Look up how Brazil gets it done. America is without excuse. How we vote is a national disgrace. Mass mail in voting should NEVER EVER BE ALLOWED! One vote one person - NO PROXY harvesting votes: YOU GO IN PERSON TO VOTE or request an absentee ballot for SPECIFIC REASONS!

And voter ID is the starting point to a system that works.

I agree. Regardless of whether the outcome of this election would change because of the alleged fraud, I think that mail-in voting is a sham.

 

[Jsmegs77]

Mail in voting should be limited to the physically disabled but mentally sound, and military personnel on active foreign assignment. Anyone else, if it doesn’t mean enough to you to show up in person, sorry, but you don’t get a say.

Also, voter registration should be synced with death records, and purged regularly. Forget to register following a move? No vote. Forget to register at all? No vote. Don’t have ID? No vote. Not a citizen? No vote.

Edit: just realized that quite a few careers could have a really hard time voting without mail in voting of some sort. Airline pilots, ship crew, and OTR truck drivers, to name a few. But by and large my opinion holds.

 

[Grimscale]

Edit: just realized that quite a few careers could have a really hard time voting without mail in voting of some sort. Airline pilots, ship crew, and OTR truck drivers, to name a few. But by and large my opinion holds.

Yes, but each of these KNOW they will be away from home during the election and can request an absentee ballot. This allows for verification of who they are, thus proving their vote is valid.

Mass mail-in voting should be outlawed as there is no way to verify who the ballots are being sent to, who filled them out, and who signed them.
Unless you require that each and every one of them are filled out and signed in the presence of witnesses, and signed by a notary public who MUST review proper identification to prove the person is who they claim they are, and the witnesses are who they say they are.

That would be a LOT of notaries required.

 

[spat]

Yes, but each of these KNOW they will be away from home during the election and can request an absentee ballot. This allows for verification of who they are, thus proving their vote is valid.

Mass mail-in voting should be outlawed as there is no way to verify who the ballots are being sent to, who filled them out, and who signed them.
Unless you require that each and every one of them are filled out and signed in the presence of witnesses, and signed by a notary public who MUST review proper identification to prove the person is who they claim they are, and the witnesses are who they say they are.

That would be a LOT of notaries required.

What if absentee ballots for people in the US weren't mailed back, but turned in in person to a nearby polling place on election day, where your voter ID card could be verified.

OTR truck driver 1000 miles from home ? They're voting somewhere near you, fill out the absentee ballot you received in the mail and drop it off there, they'll check your ID and get it where it needs to be.

Deployed military ? They handle the ID verification and return the ballots for you with an appropriate chain of custody.

On Vacation in Thailand, guess you don't vote, should have picked a different week.

Etc...

 

[Mr. terzmo]

Mail in voting should be limited to the physically disabled but mentally sound, and military personnel on active foreign assignment. Anyone else, if it doesn’t mean enough to you to show up in person, sorry, but you don’t get a say.

Also, voter registration should be synced with death records, and purged regularly. Forget to register following a move? No vote. Forget to register at all? No vote. Don’t have ID? No vote. Not a citizen? No vote.

Edit: just realized that quite a few careers could have a really hard time voting without mail in voting of some sort. Airline pilots, ship crew, and OTR truck drivers, to name a few. But by and large my opinion holds.

Social Security knows the day a person passes so the voting register should also be connected and that person also deleted. Simple computer change would red flag any vote from a dead person being processed and possibly that person submitting it identified or it's source.

 

[livingston]

Social Security knows the day a person passes so the voting register should also be connected and that person also deleted. Simple computer change would red flag any vote from a dead person being processed and possibly that person submitting it identified or it's source.

I had someone tell me who worked in workmans comp for the state that they could not check with SS to see if someone died .. Some folks keep cashing compensation checks after that person died . ... It could have changed as this was told to me years ago.

 

[Mr. terzmo]

SS is a fed fund and they will catch it sooner than later. All undertaker's in NY report this as far as My experience with deceased Family members