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Election Day Discussion thread [Monday April 28]
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I wonder if the election will be over as soon as the polls close in Ontario.
Kind looks like we'll need to wait all night based on the initial results coming out of the alantic.
The powers that be decided this election is paper ballots only, so no counting machines to make it go faster.
I mean I get it, but the results will take longer than normal.
Honestly for the best, counting machines are potentially vulnerable to foreign interference.
Not really tho. That's an American thing. Our elections are managed by an independent Elections Canada, not by individual parties. We protect our right to vote pretty well.
But to avoid any 'argument' that the Cons might throw up, Elections Canada decided this would be best.
Anything that runs source code can be hacked. I'm not talking about elections canada or one of the parties influencing the votes. I'm talking about foreign state sponsored cyber warfare.
If it's online. The vote counting machines are not.
Many times a voting machine in America - not 'online' - still was reachable on wifi or bluetooth, and was thus very vulnerable.
For more info, talk to the people who secure America's election, if you can find them after they were fired.
You can 100% install hardware back doors. Anyone that says something can't be hacked has never worked on secure products before. There is always a way in. Being disconnected from a network isn't always enough.
More secure.
Fewer chances for PP to use lies to delay his inevitable loss.
Quebec and Ontario
An often noted oddity of the Canadian population is to draw a horizontal line at Windsor Ontario and a vertical line at Huntsville Ontario .... everything south and east of that line is 90% of the Canadian population.
I recall in 2015 that when Atlantic Canada went solid red that was enough to show that the Liberals won entirely and the rest was just waiting the night out.