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Voting Machines: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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John Oliver explains the security vulnerabilities, outdated software, and lack of oversight in electronic voting machines used in US elections.

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What people say. Recommended as an accessible and eye-opening overview of the security flaws and lack of physical security in electronic voting systems.

cassepipeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “YouTube will stop removing false claims of 2020 US election fraud”

…e it's either a conspiracy to hide it, or that there was no such thing. Thing is, conspiracies are hard to pull off and we end up knowing about them (and nobody really cares and we forget about them, they're called "scandals") I do find myself agreeing on voting machines though.The Last Week Tonight on voting machines was quite something to watch: link to this video…
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ErikVandeWateron Hacker News • Disputes

On “Justice Clarence Thomas uncovered a seven-year-old bug in my program (2013)”

"Overthrow the United States government" is a very rich interpretation. Anyways I'd say there's very little reason other than blind faith to trust any election result that uses voting machines. Here's a John Oliver clip featuring: - Hitting "remind me later" on critical Windows security updates for over a decade - Administrators not believing the voting machines are connected to the internet, just connected to a "secure modem" - Mappings of candidates vote counts being reversed, so candidate A gets all of candidate B's votes and vice versa. - Machines being left unattended and having easy override procedures that allow anyone knowing the procedure immediate admin access link to this video
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mseidlon Hacker News • Mentions

On “USPS patent for reliable voting system secured with blockchain”

…engineering is a HUGE thing. Look at defcon videos where they "hack" via pretending to be someone in the company and make a phone call. It happens so fast(minutes). Also, there's a video on electronic voting , it might be a vice video or jon Oliver... districts left voting machines easily accessible, not under lock and key, no cameras, nothing... link to this video America should do what Germany does with voting make the ballots easy to read/use, none of this stupid chad shit. There are big circles on our ballots to mark the vote, it's simple/clear. The xkcd comic sums it up perfectly too. link…
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ErikVandeWateron Hacker News • Mentions

On “A stroll through the archives of Editor & Publisher”

Not exactly an article, but John Oliver's concerns over the security of voting machines in the US (November, 2019): link to this video Personally I had not seen anything from him stating he believed the security holes were fixed on a broad scale, or on any scale. But his recent video in November 2020 suggests he no longer had any substantial concerns regarding voting machine security: link
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