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Widespread Vote-by-Mail Fraud Allegations in Paterson NJ City Council Election
- lykr0n 6y agoPart of me wonders if this is an isolated incident, or some group setting the stage for something else. Also, why is this on HN?
- akvadrako 6y ago> Also, why is this on HN? Remote voting has become a news item in the USA recently, partially because of Covid. And voting theory is pretty interesting - in this instance it seems like a classical security vs convenience trade-off. The tradition of secret ballots goes back a long way but maybe with almost ubiquitous internet we've reached a point where it's no longer worth the cost.
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- joelhoffman 6y ago800 votes were "improperly bundled" and 2390 out of about 16000 had non-matching signatures, and people who say they didn't vote are recorded as having voted. Sounds like the security features of vote by mail are working as designed. A very small race like this is the only scenario where someone might bother to attack it this way, and there are thousands of them, so if that's what this is, I guess it's not surprising to see it happen somewhere.