>Some counties could be forced to hand-count election results, which multiple studies and experts have said comes with a higher risk of fraud and inaccuracies; could result in legal challenges;
That’s the whole point. To invalidate the electoral process.
37m estimated cost every other year. Gotta be a good opportunity for a vendor to design to spec.
“The secretary of state’s office estimates that this ongoing cost would be more than $37 million every two years.
And that’s if counties can even find compliant voting technology to buy”
I work elections for one of the companies that makes voting equipment, and I assure you, this article is complete and utter bullshit.
It’s true that current machines use some form of rewritable storage to record votes. However, that data is highly encrypted, and only the machine that wrote it can alter it. The machine that tabulates the data can only read it. But if you DID rewrite it, you’d scramble the data on the drive and you’d have to get a new copy of it from the original voting machine, where the data would still be unaltered.
But even then, if this law takes effect, any of these machines could, without modification, switch to write-once drives. So yes, those drives would have to be replaced, once per machine, each election, at the cost of a few dollars per machine. But the article lies and claims that the entire machine would have to be replaced. It’s hard to imagine that the author of this article *just so happened* to misunderstand that point, so I really think the goal here was to get people angry.
Just like every other damned report about anything having anything to do with government or politics.
This is on purpose. It’s to make Texans angry at voting machines, so they can have an excuse to go back to paper counting which would allow them to throw out more brown people votes.
Bokbreath says
>Some counties could be forced to hand-count election results, which multiple studies and experts have said comes with a higher risk of fraud and inaccuracies; could result in legal challenges;
That’s the whole point. To invalidate the electoral process.
Ok-Gear-5593 says
37m estimated cost every other year. Gotta be a good opportunity for a vendor to design to spec.
“The secretary of state’s office estimates that this ongoing cost would be more than $37 million every two years.
And that’s if counties can even find compliant voting technology to buy”
Right-Fisherman-1234 says
Ivanka brand Chinese voting machines?
thestankypopster says
I wouldn’t be surprised to find Trump behind this.
Darnitol1 says
I work elections for one of the companies that makes voting equipment, and I assure you, this article is complete and utter bullshit.
It’s true that current machines use some form of rewritable storage to record votes. However, that data is highly encrypted, and only the machine that wrote it can alter it. The machine that tabulates the data can only read it. But if you DID rewrite it, you’d scramble the data on the drive and you’d have to get a new copy of it from the original voting machine, where the data would still be unaltered.
But even then, if this law takes effect, any of these machines could, without modification, switch to write-once drives. So yes, those drives would have to be replaced, once per machine, each election, at the cost of a few dollars per machine. But the article lies and claims that the entire machine would have to be replaced. It’s hard to imagine that the author of this article *just so happened* to misunderstand that point, so I really think the goal here was to get people angry.
Just like every other damned report about anything having anything to do with government or politics.
ICLazeru says
Do they even have the electricity to run voting machines?
Khemith says
This is on purpose. It’s to make Texans angry at voting machines, so they can have an excuse to go back to paper counting which would allow them to throw out more brown people votes.