Do Voting Machines Contribute to Voter Fraud?
Paperless voting machines can be hacked.
Princeton University professor, Andrew Appel, exposed how paperless voting machines, similar to the ones used in New Jersey, can be hacked. The Trump campaign heavily cited his work to challenge the 2020 election results.
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Blockchain technology can prevent voter fraud.
Blockchain, the exciting technology behind Bitcoin, can potentially prevent voter fraud. It is a decentralised digital ledger supported simultaneously by millions of nodes, making it nearly impossible to tamper. No fakes can be created with this.
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Malicious recalibration of touchscreen technology makes it not just possible but easy for the voting process to be tampered with.
Ohio-based scientists have revealed that recalibration of the touchscreens used in the electoral process can allow votes cast for one candidate to be mapped to another.
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The 2020 US election was the most secure in the nation’s history.
A group of federal, state, and local election officials claimed that the 2020 US election had no evidence of compromised voting systems. Furthermore, 92% of votes had a paper backup and could be audited which strengthened their claim.
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Technology from the 1990s is still being used in voting machines.
Computer scientists expressed concerns about using highly outdated voting machines and technologies in the US elections. They said the ballots using DRE technology aren’t the most sophisticated machinery to use in elections.
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The voting machines’ device security is vulnerable and leaves the process open to a great deal of exploitation.
Security is alarmingly poor for a process that is so sensitive and of such importance. The 2019 DEF CON voting machine hacking report shared compromised details of these machines, which can throw open several opportunities of exploiting the process.
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The absence of paper records leaves the process devoid of verifiability and checking mechanisms.
An entirely electronic voting process makes it impossible to audit or verify the election process or redress any issues that arise from it. Common risks include cyberattack on voters data leading to compromised votes.
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There is no substantive evidence of rigging and fraud in the US 2020 Election
59 election security experts have gone on to sign a document stating that no evidence of fraud has been noticed in the 2020 election. They have dismissed all claims of rigging as mere speculation.
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Participants of an ethical hacking group shared compromised information on voting machines.
The 2019 DEF CON Voting Machine Hacking Village report claimed that participants could exploit all voting machines available there. While the conditions there were not identical to the polling booth environment, one could covertly apply some of the strategies.
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Voting technology hasn’t managed to upgrade itself to be with the times.
There are several loopholes in the current voting technology, including instances of lost votes and technical glitches. Furthermore, outdated voting machines have not been tested to present security standards and pose a severe threat to security and accuracy.
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Privatisation of elections in several countries has left the process open to be exploited.
It is now possible to rig the entire electoral process with little to no scope of tracing it back to the perpetrators or detecting the source. Many of the employees deployed by voting-machine companies have been convicted or accused of severe crimes.
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The Department of Homeland Security fact-checked Trump’s allegations that voting machines deleted 2.7 million votes.
Lily Adams, spokesperson of the Democratic National Committee, has come forward to restate that the 2020 US elections had been secure, free and fair. Trump’s own Department of Homeland Security has disproved his allegations.