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I don't understand this "electronic voting machines are bad" myth. I voted with one of these machines for the first time this election and all it did was... pri

I don't understand this "electronic voting machines are bad" myth. I voted with one of these machines for the first time this election and all it did was... print out my choices on a ballot. It takes all of 15 seconds to look over your votes and make sure they're correct. Then I manually put the ballot in a privacy sleeve, walked over to the ballot box, and inserted my ballot. The machine was a mere convenience that kept me from needing to manually circle my choices with a pen. Not much opportunity for widespread voter fraud in my opinion. If the machines were switching votes so rampantly you'd think, of the millions of people who voted, more people would've raised concern at the polls when they noticed their vote for the president of the United States at the top of the printed ballot was switched. Am I missing something?

rightbyte 6y ago
The ballots are counted by machine too right? I would not say that is a good idea but the hand recounts would have shown any fraud from those if there were any fraud.
- woofie11 6y ago
  I'm not worried about machines which print ballots and leave a paper trail. That's not what they look like many places. You hit a button on the screen. Your pray your vote is counted correctly. There's no audit trail, no security, and no transparency.
  - syspec 6y ago
    > Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. States with electronic voting, which does not print out a paper receipt. But interestingly, no one is looking into these states for alleged fraud
- Natanael_L 6y ago
  Yes they are, and several states followed up with manual hand counts. This includes Georgia (which performed 3 manual recounts!).
AaronM 6y ago
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-eight-states-to-use-paperless-voting-in-2020-despite https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-... Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. These are the states you should be worried about. With no paper trail, there is no reliable way to audit the results.
- wronginternet4 6y ago
  I'm inclined to agree that no paper trail is a bad idea. It's interesting that of all the states you listed, only NJ went blue this election. You'd think democrats would be the ones more vocal about potential fraud from electronic voting.

rightbyte 6y ago

The ballots are counted by machine too right? I would not say that is a good idea but the hand recounts would have shown any fraud from those if there were any fraud.

woofie11 6y ago
I'm not worried about machines which print ballots and leave a paper trail. That's not what they look like many places. You hit a button on the screen. Your pray your vote is counted correctly. There's no audit trail, no security, and no transparency.
- syspec 6y ago
  > Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. States with electronic voting, which does not print out a paper receipt. But interestingly, no one is looking into these states for alleged fraud
Natanael_L 6y ago
Yes they are, and several states followed up with manual hand counts. This includes Georgia (which performed 3 manual recounts!).

AaronM 6y ago

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-eight-states-to-use-paperless-voting-in-2020-despite https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/457168-report-says-... Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey. These are the states you should be worried about. With no paper trail, there is no reliable way to audit the results.

wronginternet4 6y ago
I'm inclined to agree that no paper trail is a bad idea. It's interesting that of all the states you listed, only NJ went blue this election. You'd think democrats would be the ones more vocal about potential fraud from electronic voting.