Science at Cal Lecture - Leave election integrity to chance

Science at Cal Lecture - Leave election integrity to chance

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Oct 21, 2017, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | 100 Genetics & Plant Biology Building | Happening As Scheduled
Philip B. Stark, Division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
There’s no perfect way to count votes. To paraphrase Ulysses S. Grant and Richard M. Nixon, “Mistakes will be made.” Voters don’t always follow instructions. Voting systems can be mis-programmed. Ballots can be misplaced. Election fraud is not entirely unknown in the U.S. And the more elections depend on technology, the more vulnerable they are to failures, bugs, and hacking–domestic and...