In the ongoing saga of the Wisconsin GOP/union battle, a new wrinkle is on the latest battlefield. This past week was the scene of the election of a Wisconsin Supreme Court judge. The incumbent is one
David Prosser, a conservative who is generally considered to be aligned with Governor Walker. The challenger was the state Assistant Attorney General
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Have a printer next to each touch screen voting booth that prints out an encrypted hash with a time stamp as part of the algorithm. The hash will contain all the encrypted info of who received a vote. That way if there is an accusation of hacking to change the inputted database than you'll have a paper record with an encrypted hash. Try hacking that. You'd have to do a man-in-the middle or some other hack that gets it before it gets added to the database.
But wait, there's more. That database since it has a time-stamp can tell if someone stacked the machine with votes before the election officially began or be checked to see if an oddity that indicates fraud such as a repetitive number of matching ballots cast in quick succession that would indicate someone standing there and "stuffing" the machine. All you'd have to do is feed the paper read-out into an OCR scanner and you should have a duplicate of the database.
That way a quick heuristic program could catch anything peculiar so investigators can deal with likely voter fraud quicker and more precise.
Of course there's still the possibility of a hack that cheats the input. You could always have the machine have a feedback page that takes the hash and converts it back to a ballot that a person can verify by looking at on the screen.
I think at that point, it'd be impossible short of having a widespread and open attempt at fraud to cheat the ballot box.
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