Election security becomes a political issue in Georgia.

[Codemaster85]

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/12/637163104/election-security-becomes-a-political-issue-in-georgia-governors-race

In the fall of 2016, as reports of Russian-backed hacking of state election systems were surfacing, Georgia's Secretary of State, Brian Kemp, rejected federal offers of help to secure his state's voting systems.
"The question remains whether the federal government will subvert the Constitution to achieve the goal of federalizing elections under the guise of security," Kemp told a technology website.
Earlier this year, Kemp formed a commission to look at moving the state to new voting technology with a paper trail. But he says that switch shouldn't happen before this fall's election because it would cause chaos at the polls, and potentially suppress turn-out.
"That would be an absolute disaster, changing from the current system we have now to paper ballots," Kemp said in an interview.

Reminder, this is my state wich had one district reporting a 240% turnout rate.

[Pax]

Kemp is such a shit. I'm ashamed for our state, but that's not too unusual for Georgia.

[TheTalon]

Ya don't say? 243% turn out, and before that they destroyed their election data right after a lawsuit was filed saying their election system was compromised

HMMM

[smurfy]

IIRC the 240% turnout rate was quite a brief error caused by the wrong number being entered for the district's population - i.e. the votes were recorded fine they just had the population set way lower than it actually was

Still, voting without a paper trail seems like cruising directly into a bruising to me

[Borealis]

Polls show Abrams with a small lead, enough for vote suppression to change the outcome.

Also federalizing elections is a good thing because I don't trust certain states to not suppress votes.

[StrawberryClock]

topical:

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/voting_software.png

There are lots of very smart people doing fascinating work on cryptographic voting protocols. We should be funding and encouraging them, and doing all our elections with paper ballots until everyone currently working in that field has retired.

[Jaguar]

I've seen people use this to argue in favor of stricter voter ID laws rather than improving voting machines.

[Zero-Point]

Because if you have stricter voter ID laws, there's no WAY people can fuck with a digital ballot! /s

[smug.gif]

If you have stricter voting laws, you can keep the brown people out. Then you don't have to bother with rigging the election!