2026-10-20 18:31 UTC
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@Havatra@lemmy.zip 2026-10-20 23:04
Voting machines are vulnerable just like any other machine, and have been proven time and time again that they’re not particularly difficult to hack. DEF CON has been doing it for almost ten years at this point. First time in 2017, with lots of articles covering it. The year after even TIME reported about how an 11 year old did it. In 2024 they got some attention again due to Trump going for second term. But I don’t think much came of it… The US is a flawed democracy, and has been on a steady decline for years.
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 18:33
The administration wanted a voting machine hacked, but DOGE had already fired the experts capable of doing it. Apparently the one thing stopping a potential election conspiracy was Elon Musk’s ability to make government incompetent at absolutely everything. Task failed successfully.
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@Kaligalis@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 02:16
Of course they hacked voting machines to audit their security. Apart from that, voting machines can’t fulfill the transparency requirements of democratic elections on principle. So just not using them would be better anyway.
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-21 06:15
Remember tulsi was tasked with testing the machines before she resigned.
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@YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 2026-10-20 19:45
It’s the old projection thing again. Republicans: the Dems hacked voting machines and stole the election! Lock them up! Also Republicans: we hacked a voting machine so we can steal the election.
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@encelado748@feddit.org 2026-10-20 20:16
They want to find vulnerabilities, even vulnerabilities that you cannot use or that you have no evidence are getting used, to justify canceling the vote later.
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@bold_atlas@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 06:22
Can’t wait for stories like this to suddenly when Republicans somehow miraculously come out on top in key races.
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@SabinStargem@lemmy.today 2026-10-21 06:26
Independent testing of voting machines and open sourcing the vulnerabilities in order to get them patched, is a good idea. Unfortunately, we all know what the Trump Regime actually intends to do: Keep the vulnerabilities in their pocket, and use them to secure “victories”.
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@Pratai@piefed.ca 2026-10-21 06:10
It’s totally fine though. Since no one in America has the balls to do anything about it- it’s legal.
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@Jiral@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 06:42
This is an inherent flaw of digital voting nachines. One has to trust their integrity which only can be confirmed by a few specialist. By design, that is a lot simpler to undermine than a system that relies on a huge number of people where akmost anyone who wants to is capanle of taking part in securing the integrity of the vote.
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@fox2263@lemmy.world 2026-10-21 06:45
The good thing is if these idiots do jack the machines to rig the results, they won’t do it subtly. It’ll be like a 99% landslide
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@OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 23:02
The smoking gun for me is how much they’ve been screaming about others cheating. They cheated.
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@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2026-10-20 22:25
The first stone has fallen out of the wall. I hope it leads to more. If you look at the various numerical anomalies that occurred in swing states only, it becomes very plausible that Harris actually won. Mail-in votes closely reflected polling, but election-night voting (i.e. on the machines) contradicted the polls. Split-ticket voting occurred much more often than usual - in this case, ballots with a vote for Trump and votes for Democrats the rest of the way. This does happen in elections, but not nearly to the degree it happened in the swing states. The anomalies were always enough for Trump to win, but just below the thresholds that would trigger automatic audits.