Saturday, August 6, 2016

Smartcard fixes the election fraud problem

Politico reports that electronic voting machines are cardboard fraud devices purchased by idiot election commissioners.
Politico: If such standards come to fruition, it will be the Princeton group—the young Ph.D.’s who have since moved on to appointments and professorships around the country—and their contemporaries in the computer science world who suddenly matter.
The Princeton group has a simple message: That the machines that Americans use at the polls are less secure than the iPhones they use to navigate their way there. They’ve seen the skeletons of code inside electronic voting’s digital closet, and they’ve mastered the equipment’s vulnerabilities perhaps better than anyone (a contention the voting machine companies contest, of course). They insist the elections could be vulnerable at myriad strike points, among them the software that aggregates the precinct vote totals, and the voter registration rolls that are increasingly digitized. But the threat, the cyber experts say, starts with the machines that tally the votes and crucially keep a record of them—or, in some cases, don't.

Smartcard are secure from human tampering, even by the owner.  Secure voting is si ple since everyone has a Smartcard.  Just tap your card on the ballot choice, no human will have access to your vote but you will be counted.   Why hasn't Microsoft made the smart card?  Obviously it is too difficult for Google gadget makers.

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