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Why Electronic Voting Is Still A Bad Idea

2019-12-09

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We still shouldn't be using electronic voting. Here's why. • Sponsored by Dashlane — for free on your first device @ https://www.dashlane.com/tomscott

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REFERENCES:

Computerphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

Stories about voter identification happening outside the law: https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-1051,00.html

Voting machines left connected to the internet: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kxzk9/exclusive-critical-us-election-systems-have-been-left-exposed-online-despite-official-denials

Hackers getting voting machines to play Doom: https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/hackers-can-easily-break-into-voting-machines-used-across-the-u-s-play-doom-nirvana/

"Small, well-funded team backed by a national government": https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/russian-hacking-elections.html

Scottish election: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/jun/20/scotland.devolution and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6627657.stm - with the Excel detail on page 50 of https://www.openrightsgroup.org/wp-content/uploads/org_election_report.pdf?page=50

Report on e-voting in Estonia: https://estoniaevoting.org/

Written with Sean Elliott https://twitter.com/SeanMElliott/

Directed by Tomek

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Audio mix by Haerther Productions https://haerther.net/

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