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Have predicted for years that electronic voting would cause civil unrest because in a highly contested election, it does not provide adequte physical evidence o
by motohagiography 5y ago
Have predicted for years that electronic voting would cause civil unrest because in a highly contested election, it does not provide adequte physical evidence of vote integrity. The whole idea of electronic voting is designed to forfeit the integrity of a process whose entire legitimacy depends on the integrity of that process. As they say, this isn't the first time they stole from us, it's just the first time they've been caught. Anyone who has scratched the surface of this issue is unlikely to be persuaded by new assurances about new electronic voting controls, other than committed partisans who are fine if it's rigged in their favour.
The more interesting question is, what are the knock on effects of a popular loss of confidence in western elections held with these machines?
- odessacubbage 5y agoi would assume that the presumption of fraud would itself lead to greater degrees of fraud with the inherent justification among partisans being 'well the other guy is doing it so this is the only way we can keep up'. that in of itself might not be that bad but if the fraud or perception of fraud has potential to act as a force multiplier for existing instabilities and intra-party paranoias then it becomes very easy to imagine the process dismantling itself. it really seems like the experiment for this decade is figuring out just how much distrust institutions can take on while still remaining functional.