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Exactly. The other thing the current system does is that it involves LOTS of people. The people counting a specific polling place may only count 1000 votes. The
by snarf21 6y ago
Exactly. The other thing the current system does is that it involves LOTS of people. The people counting a specific polling place may only count 1000 votes. They know their count. They can talk to the other counters at other locations. So if your state or area all of a sudden miraculously goes blue/red, you can know it instantly and have the paper to prove it. This is the beauty of the system. It can't be hacked at scale and you have a hard time inserting fake ballots because each location can triple check their reported district counts.
- elcritch 6y agoThat’s a good point. Based on that idea, do you think large scale mail in ballots would have similar issues to an electronic system? Normally I don’t follow the news cycle, but this makes it seem large scale mail in ballots would be more readily corrupted at scale?
- mhh__ 6y agoMaybe, but it still involves doing various difficult tasks at huge scale. The paper trail for fraud of that scale is enormous - think of the Watergate slush fund only way bigger and in the age of twitter. This is why paper voting works - you can maybe fraudulently gain a few votes but good luck doing it at a national scale (also an argument against FPTP). Look up granny farming for a more realistic election fraud strategy