White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

caseysoftware

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?

rcpt

Seems to be an exclusive article that's also paywall. Anyone know the story? Ensuring secure elections and auditing extensively seems like good practice. However the issue has become political and neither party is interested in that. The right claims fraud with no good evidence, in response the left has decided that our elections perfectly secure and to suggest otherwise gets you a sound "tsk tsk"

jmward01

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.

edoceo

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?

verdverm

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

pclowes

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.

steele

Grok is working overtime trying to hallucinate exploited vulnerabilities to call into question the US 2020 election results because the loser of that election is an demented egomaniac with daddy issues ossified longer than those draft dodger bone spurs.

k310

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.