"Otherwise, when you have your name in one state that’s not an ERIC state and your name in an ERIC state, well, it just so happens that you can vote twice.” And so, I was hoping to capture that information on my phone. I actually looked at my phone to make sure that I was recording and oh my goodness, you have to check it like every 15/20 minutes, make sure it’s running. My equipment didn’t quite make it because I have a million photos on my phone. It just didn’t happen.
Not really a bombshell; we've only got her word (admittedly biased) and, even if it's true, it's just an endorsement of ERIC? Like, if you confronted this guy in public he could simply say "This wouldn't be a problem if all states used ERIC."
It's a hole to fix, certainly, but this isn't going to swing elections very far if the only people that can abuse it have to move states.
I'll agree that this isn't a bombshell. Most people don't vote, the key is knowing who doesn't normally vote and voting via mail in ballot for them. Both political parties have a database of this very information. They also know who they may have cast a ballot for, but the other party doesn't know. It's a game for sure and the only real way to fix it is to vote in person
The only way I could trust online voting is if there were a way for me to verify my own vote after the fact but, even then, it's trivially easy to make a screen say one thing while the vote tallies say another.
I think the biggest vulnerability is the remote voting, which should be just scrapped; if you can't get yourself down to the polling station, why should we care about your opinion?
I'm going to check that link above, but I learned first hand how it's possible and that the mechanism is in place to do it when I ran for office about 12 years ago. My wife told me I should contact the attorney general in our state. I told her how do you think he got there? The fix is in. A few can break through, but they're diluted by connected politicians. I gave up on it after that realization
Not really a bombshell; we've only got her word (admittedly biased) and, even if it's true, it's just an endorsement of ERIC? Like, if you confronted this guy in public he could simply say "This wouldn't be a problem if all states used ERIC."
It's a hole to fix, certainly, but this isn't going to swing elections very far if the only people that can abuse it have to move states.
I'll agree that this isn't a bombshell. Most people don't vote, the key is knowing who doesn't normally vote and voting via mail in ballot for them. Both political parties have a database of this very information. They also know who they may have cast a ballot for, but the other party doesn't know. It's a game for sure and the only real way to fix it is to vote in person
Agreed.
The only way I could trust online voting is if there were a way for me to verify my own vote after the fact but, even then, it's trivially easy to make a screen say one thing while the vote tallies say another.
I think the biggest vulnerability is the remote voting, which should be just scrapped; if you can't get yourself down to the polling station, why should we care about your opinion?
I'm going to check that link above, but I learned first hand how it's possible and that the mechanism is in place to do it when I ran for office about 12 years ago. My wife told me I should contact the attorney general in our state. I told her how do you think he got there? The fix is in. A few can break through, but they're diluted by connected politicians. I gave up on it after that realization