[Cryptography] Have you seen...
Bill Frantz
frantz at pwpconsult.com
Mon Apr 4 15:23:13 EDT 2016
On 4/4/16 at 12:53 AM, gnu at toad.com (John Gilmore) wrote:
>We do see this sort of thing in California elections. A favorite
>trick for defeating close initiatives is to buy a bunch of media time
>in the last week before the election, and put out endless repetitions
>of high impact ads full of lies told by credible people. The ads are
>tested on focus groups for the biggest short-term impact, regardless
>of their long term truth or convincingness. By the time the other
>side can respond, bam, it's election day and their voter support has
>dropped below 49.99%, and the initiative loses. And who cares if
>the voters find that they have been lied to -- two days AFTER
>the election? Elections don't get rerun just because politicians
>tell lies, that's expected. Sorry, you lost, bye.
I am hoping that the move toward voting by mail will spread the
voting over a long enough period that this strategy won't work
as well. Voting by mail brings up its own vulnerabilities, but
security is tradeoffs.
Cheers - Bill
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