Where will the Hacking Stop?

Yet again, the Democrats have been hacked.  First, it was Hillary at State, then the DNC, and now it is Nancy Pelosi.  If you want to secure something, DO NOT give it to the Democratic Party.  Considering the willful failure of the Democrats to secure the national borders, it should come as no surprise that they can's secure their email either.

With all this hacking and, thanks to it, the demonstrated fact that the DNC did indeed put a finger on the scale in favor of Hillary through the recent primary against Bernie, there is unsurprisingly a discussion of how secure is voting.  With the proliferation of hacking, is it rational to put trust in electronic voting?  I discussed this in another blog.  Whereas electronic voting provides the opportunity to hack from anywhere in the world, a paper ballot must be forged onsite.  That makes it both tougher to corrupt and, if it is, easier to narrow down the culprit.  What paper ballots lack in instant tabulation is more than offset by immunity to foreign hacking.

 

Being in the computer field, I have long regarded electronic voting with skepticism.  I want there to be a hard copy that can be examined if their are any doubts.  Electrons on a silicon chip are much easier to manipulate than holes punched in paper or ink markings.