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  • Delaying vulnerability disclosure for political reasons undermines the entire coordinated disclosure model. If researchers learn that findings get buried when inconvenient, they stop reporting through official channels.
    by asadeddin
  • Is anyone aware of any viable, or close to viable open-source options exist? That also have capacity for something like a CA statewide election?
    by edoceo
  • Every Accusation is a Confession.

    Voter fraud means:

    1. I did it.

    2. I need to blame someone else.

    3. The more general definition of fraud is: anything done by someone who disagrees with me.

    4. Jim Crow.

    5. Must go.

    by k310
  • Faith in elections and election integrity is incredibly important.

    Unsubstantiated claims of election fraud should be punished severely. Politicians who baselessly erode confidence in elections without providing timely evidence should be ineligible for political office at least and potentially tried for treason.

    by pclowes
  • The red haring is that voting is hacked or illegals are voting, etc etc etc. The -real- story is disenfranchising voters by making it hard for them or out-right steaming their votes in the courts. We don't have an election fraud issue in the us. We have an election legitimacy issue.
    by jmward01
  • What does HN know about https://www.voting.works/ ? (open source/hardware voting machine)

    Note, they are also trying to change the USPS rules regarding mail-in ballots, such that the USPS will not deliver ballots either direction unless the recipient is on a list they are allowed to make. Public comment is open until July 2

    https://www.regulations.gov/document/USPS-2026-1289-0001

    by verdverm
  • I'd love to hear the steelman - what's the argument in favor of using a proprietary electronic system?

    There have been legit complaints about closed sourced voting systems for ~20 years and DEFCON has done a "Voting Village" for ~10 years demonstrating numerous issues, some of which were not addressed by the next elections. Transparency doesn't appear better either.

    Is it speed to tally? Cost? Easier to screw with results?

    by caseysoftware

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