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Everyone here that I've read so far is close to going fringe conspiracy theorist on this issue. Electronic machines in the US are hard to hack en masse, because
by partiallypro 8y ago
Everyone here that I've read so far is close to going fringe conspiracy theorist on this issue. Electronic machines in the US are hard to hack en masse, because they require you to take them apart...and most neighboring jurisdictions don't even have a matching processes or voting systems. You all seem to say that paper ballots are safer and more transparent...but that's just factually wrong. Where do you think the term "ballot stuffing" comes from? There are videos of the Russian election just this past year of boxes being stuffed with paper ballots. It happened in the 1800s in the US, especially around the time when black Americans could begin voting.
The solution is simple and most places already do this, but each voting machine prints a matching paper receipt that can be matched with an electronic record. My jurisdiction already does this, it prints out of the back of the machine when you're done, but my vote is also electronic.
Those of you insinuating that Republicans (generally this is what people are hinting at) or Democrats are conspiring to rig elections via electronic voting are acting insane. If either party wanted to rig the election they could do it with paper or electronic ballots...and I highly doubt the vote tallies would be so close or that both parties would have so many seats flip every 8-10 years in toss up areas.
- Mangalor 8y agoBallot stuffing is a diagnosable problem. Electronics obfuscate. It's the principle that matters.
- partiallypro 8y agoNot really? Because we don't pool the votes together into a mass pool, we can see a county by county break down of votes, if the votes are off people are going to notice in the electronic world. Not just that but as I said, you can have both a paper and digital ballot for verification. You can also have "check-in" numbers (which I believe most polling places do) to make sure the number of check-ins match the vote tally.