• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You can easily just chuck paper ballots and write new ones. It’s easier than hacking a computer system. Trust me, I wrote through all of school.

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      1 year ago

      And either one of these attacks is high risk, low reward. Let’s say you can modify a voting machine or toss/replace some paper ballots. You, as one person, aren’t going to make much of a difference in the election results - especially national ones. Meanwhile, you’ll be risking significant prison time if caught. (And a lot of people will be watching during your attempt.)

      Scaling this attack up would require armies of co-conspirators all operating silently, nobody ratting out the others, nobody getting caught, and everyone successfully pulling off their missions. This is something that might be possible in a movie, but it’s extremely unlikely in the real world.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, but any idiot understands that attack. Which is why the major political parties send volunteers to watch elections go ensure that doesn’t happen.