Indiana Purging Voters Using Software That’s 99% Inaccurate
In the US, there&#x27;s a lot of concern about making it easy for voters to register and stay registered, because in the past officials used this to disenfranchise blacks in the south and minority groups.<p>I think they are not paying enough attention to the risk of intentional voter fraud (by hostile outsiders) in the modern world.  In the last election, Russian election manipulation became a big topic because they hacked e-mail servers and placed some fake news ads.  Can you imagine what it would have done to the country if they had <i>actually placed fraudulent votes in key districts</i>?  Would you have accepted Donald Trump as president if there had been serious questions about whether he&#x27;d been elected by fraudulent votes?  This is not really that hard to imagine!<p>The system today is pretty vulnerable to manipulation by outsiders, and the discussion about voter disenfranchisement is keeping us from fixing that...