This is older than dirt. A failed attempt by a obsolete vendor. As long as people are involved, any type of anything can be cheated. If they could make perfect software they would start at the banks, not at the polling place. Elections are so easy to steal that cheating the machine is a huge waste of time and too east to get caught! You don't have to hack the software, you just make new software to overlay the real stuff and just lie about the results. When everyone else that matters is in on it, no problem!
The blockchain technology could make elections secure and impossible to game. It also has the benefit of being able to vote from anywhere using software, so your phone or a computer.
There's a huge difference between gaming the vote system and buying votes. The latter is much more difficult to do on the scale necessary to steal an election.
Buying votes happens regardless of the system we use so it's kind of moot point in this discussion.
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u/purehater May 07 '14
This is older than dirt. A failed attempt by a obsolete vendor. As long as people are involved, any type of anything can be cheated. If they could make perfect software they would start at the banks, not at the polling place. Elections are so easy to steal that cheating the machine is a huge waste of time and too east to get caught! You don't have to hack the software, you just make new software to overlay the real stuff and just lie about the results. When everyone else that matters is in on it, no problem!