In case you have or maybe you have friends that have “high” confidence in voting machines, there is a video that lays out a good cause for rejecting the use of them from now on. This is a video of a former certification FAA engineer and Michigan State Senator that has researched the electronic voting systems in the United States. This 20-minute video highlights the 5 reasons not to use them anymore and go back to paper counting.
Patrick Colbeck walks viewers through 5 categories of issues with electronic voting systems:
– Lack of Transparency
– Lack of Certification Rigor
– Lack of Configuration Control
– Proven Vulnerabilities
– Proven Exploits
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