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recent bookmarks from jmHow Space Weather Can Influence Elections on Earth - Motherboard2017-02-20T14:40:54+00:00
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/space-weather-cosmic-rays-voting-aaas
jm"Everything was going fine, but then suddenly, there were an additional 4,000 votes cast. Because it was a local election, which are normally very small, people were surprised and asked, 'how did this happen?'"
The culprit was not voter fraud or hacked machines. It was a single event upset (SEU), a term describing the fallout of an ionizing particle bouncing off a vulnerable node in the machine's register, causing it to flip a bit, and log the additional votes. The Sun may not have been the direct source of the particle—cosmic rays from outside the solar system are also in the mix—but solar-influenced space weather certainly contributes to these SEUs.]]>bit-flips science elections voting-machines vvat belgium bugs risks cosmic-rayshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:82f747a43970/