There will be an electoral district that struck out impossible numbers 'voting rate 243%'

by steve

The voting rate in political elections shows the degree of voting participation in the election area, and it is also used as an indicator of citizen's interest in politics. The higher the voting rate is, the better it is reported that the unlikely voter turnout has been recorded, in the election of the United States, the emergency voting rate of 243% .

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Georgia defends voting system despite 243-percent turnout in one precinct | Ars Technica
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In May 2018, in Georgia province a primary election for the American mid-term election held in November 2018 was held. In the election district named Mad Creek in the northeastern part of Georgia province, 276 voters were supposed to be present at the time just before the election, but the number of votes actually voted was 670 votes, the voting rate of wonder 243 He said that he battled%.

However, in fact, the number of voters of Mad Creek was corrected to 3704 people just after the election began, and "The correct voter turnout was 18%" was announced. As a reason for falling into such a confused situation, it is pointed out that there is a deficiency in the Georgia state voting system.

In Georgia state the voting system is fully electronicized and it is an election district that does not use a few paper ballots in the United States. However, researchers reported in 2017 that " there is a security flaw in Georgia's electronic voting system, there is a danger of being hacked, " he said.

by Carl Mikoy

Despite being pointed out as a deficiency in the voting system, Georgia used an electronic voting system even in the primary election in May 2018. Then, "Although it was a couple registering the same address, it was allocated to another voting place and was assigned to another election area" "The system freezed on the day of election" "vote instructed on the website It seems that it got a situation where reports such as "I was told to go to another voting place" have been told one after another though I went to the battlefield.

Harri Hursti , expert in expertise in the security of electronic voting systems, may be related to the confusion of the system that was previously found, but this confusion confirms that the system flaw caused the confusion this time Even though it was not, we insisted that we should immediately switch to paper voting. "Evidence is not necessary to do the right thing," Hursti says.

Brian Kemp , Secretary of State for Georgia states, "The election system is kept safe through the efforts of the stakeholders," but could not we ignore the confusion this time, 2020 We have set up a committee to consider changing the voting system for the presidential election in the United States . However, even though "the change of the voting system will be done quickly, it will not be enough for the mid-term election in November 2018".

by Andy Thrasher