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It's mind boggling to me that we don't automatically check the paper trails of an election and do several counts to verify the results. How will democracy survi
by yosito 10y ago
It's mind boggling to me that we don't automatically check the paper trails of an election and do several counts to verify the results. How will democracy survive if our mechanisms for implementing it are so far behind the changing world?
- r00fus 10y agoWould you be more boggled to know that there are a few large voting machine companies, one of which (Diebold) has the CEO on record as handing the election to a specific candidate (which candidate? exercise left for reader).
- r_smart 10y agoI hadn't heard about this. Can you point me to a source? Are you talking about this year's election?
- mikestew 10y agoDon't bother, what parent most likely would link to is so taken out of context as to not be worth your time. Why do you think parent didn't post a link, and instead just made some vague statement? But if you insist: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#O.27Dell.27s_fundraising https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premier_Election_Solutions#O...
- r_smart 10y agoThanks for the link. I figure you're probably right, but you never know when someone is going to surprise you with something interesting. I try to give everyone a fair hearing if they care to put a decent argument together :)
- tptacek 10y agoIt's not OK for Trump supporters to take threads off on bogus ideological tangents about "questioning the election", and it's no better for people who don't approve of Republicans doing the same thing over the Diebold story. Please don't set fire to threads on HN with stuff like this?
- jboynyc 10y agoHere's a hack: you can fund Jill Stein to request the recounts. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-election-recount-fund-michigan-wisconsin-pennsylvania https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/jill-stein-e...