Want To Feel Good About Democracy?

Ah the democratic system: a fair, easily transparent process wherein all citizens of a country have a chance to voice themselves. Ah technology: a systematic, obfusticated, layer dependent means to make people fear everyday things. Put them together and you have an easy way to collect and total everyone's vote with minimum effort; or an easy way to disenfranchise voters and commit election fraud with minimum effort. Either way is good...

I know I take particular interest in these matters since my state bought into this proto-technology before the dough had risen, but you might should pay attention too. Cause it could happen to you.

Read over this article in ArsTechnica about how to steal an election. It deals mostly with undetectable wholesale election fraud, cause that's the best kind in the eyes of political thieves. It takes just one individual with skill and minimal access to affect mass change in the outcome, without leaving a trace. Compare that with the effort of intimidating people, ballot stuffing or other retail frauds exhibited by the Republicans in 2000. Sure they stole the election, but they had to work pretty hard to do it.

This article is not a hypothetical conjecture. These attacks and the number of entry points are all real and available. All it will take is an able person with motivation; or someone with enough money to motivate an able person.

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