The Democratic Party Needs to Demand a Recount

[reACTIONary]

134. You and me both....

I will have to quote many a politician and say that I spoke "inartfully".

What I should have said was "you can't just hack anything". Let alone a decentralized and audited voting infrastructure that isn't even connected to the internet.

As noted upstream:

What theory could explain accidental or nefarious vote irregularities several times larger than those that warrant recounts in all of those blue counties (with blue elections boards)?? Different voting systems and ballot designs and democrats in control of the system... yet someone hacked the whole thing (and in a way that a recount would show it)?

There seems to be a popular impression that the proverbial teenager, wearing his "hacker hoodie" and a balaclava, hold up in his parents' basement can just "Change one line of code" in any system, anywhere, at any time, like a lame Hollywood plot device.

In reality, voting machines are not connected to the internet, and they are set up, operated, and audited under rigorous procedures to prevent hacking or compromise.

Since they are not connected to the internet, compromising them would have to be done through an elaborate "supply chain" attack. This would be something on the order of the Stuxnet attack on the Iranian nuclear weapons program, something that could only be done by a large state-sponsored effort. Stuxnet took two nation-states and an estimated five years to develop and deploy. It had one facility as a target. But in the case of the voting infrastructure you would have to do that ten times over, for ten different vendors. and would have to individually target over 3,000 facilities.

The chances of this having happened are non-zero, but only in the sense that there is a non-zero chance that an asteroid will hit the earth and wipe out all life sometime in the next ten minutes. But don't count on it.

See you in ten minutes!