The ban on wireless hardware in voting machines would force vendors who currently build systems with off-the-shelf components to rely on more expensive custom-built hardware
Surely there are off the shelf computers and motherboards that don't have Wifi, Blutetooth, or cellular modems (or that have them, but are socketed and can be removed). For wifi and cellular, the antenna connectors could be required to be grounded or attenuated.
To me the requirement should be that wireless networking must be not present or physically disabled so that a software change (hack) can't turn it back on.
This of course assumes that voting machines that do anything beyond helping a voter produce a paper ballot that can scanned and rescanned (recounted) are acceptable. I believe that that paper ballots are really the only secure way to vote (and that using a voting machine to help a voter produce one is fine).
We have hundreds of thousands of voting machines in the US, at that qty you order custom motherboards with exactly what you need and nothing else - drop WiFi, no Bluetooth, no pci express slots, etc.
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More expesive hardware? (Score:2)
The ban on wireless hardware in voting machines would force vendors who currently build systems with off-the-shelf components to rely on more expensive custom-built hardware
Surely there are off the shelf computers and motherboards that don't have Wifi, Blutetooth, or cellular modems (or that have them, but are socketed and can be removed). For wifi and cellular, the antenna connectors could be required to be grounded or attenuated.
To me the requirement should be that wireless networking must be not present or physically disabled so that a software change (hack) can't turn it back on.
This of course assumes that voting machines that do anything beyond helping a voter produce a paper ballot that can scanned and rescanned (recounted) are acceptable. I believe that that paper ballots are really the only secure way to vote (and that using a voting machine to help a voter produce one is fine).
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We have hundreds of thousands of voting machines in the US, at that qty you order custom motherboards with exactly what you need and nothing else - drop WiFi, no Bluetooth, no pci express slots, etc.