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Anymouse šŸŒ¹šŸ”šŸ˜·8/21/2018 1:39:01 am PDT

re: #148 unproven innocence

Iā€™m not sure how states could do much even if the federal government actually supported them.

With the heavy push to put everything on the Internet including voter registration rolls, any hole a hacker can find he or she can exploit. There is no such thing as secure software. There are way more hackers looking for such things than people looking to plug holes, and they only plug holes when they become aware of them (usually after an attack has already occurred).

The solution is to go back to the old system (paper registrations and paper ballots). ā€œJust because we can do something doesnā€™t mean we should do somethingā€ applies to Internet records as well.

In my state, while registration records are on-line, those records are not what determines if you get to vote. The card you filled out at the county clerkā€™s office which she keeps on file is what determines whether you get a mailed paper ballot. (That card is also what has to be physically verified to file to run for an office.)

The problem is not just the GOP either. The overwhelming majority of the populace wants quickness and ease of the Internet over the security and relative slowness of paper records. Unless the populace takes the threat seriously, the government wonā€™t either.

For corporations itā€™s worse: Security costs money, therefore they wonā€™t expend money on it unless they have to. Hospitals which use Social Security numbers to track patients and outdated software leaves patients open to exploitation by thieves as well.