FirstNet
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Yeah, I know this sounds goofy, but do we really need polling stations hooked up to the net?
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Yeah, I know this sounds goofy, but do we really need polling stations hooked up to the net?
Yeah, I know this sounds goofy,
Yes, it does sound goofy; for example, it keeps referring to the COVID pandemic as a "manufactured crisis."
... but do we really need polling stations hooked up to the net?
Have to separate "voting machines" from "polling stations." I take the term "polling station" to mean the physical room or building used to facilitate voting. Often times that room or building is part of a school, a public building (e.g., public library), a place of worship, or even someone's garage or basement. I really cannot fault these places for having Internet connections. But "voting machines," those have little to no reason to connect to any public network. Voting machines and a monitoring/diagnostic computer in the same polling station may connect among themselves that then forms a closed local network, that is probably okay, but keep that separate and isolated from other networks.