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> Why couldn't you just print out the relevant snapshot of the database for the election and manually verify it They do that, that's what the recounts and all
by throwawayffffas 4y ago
> Why couldn't you just print out the relevant snapshot of the database for the election and manually verify it
They do that, that's what the recounts and all the audits you hear in the news is all about.
Hyper partisan politics have nothing to do with the logistics of the election process. The accusations of fraud are the result of the hyper partisan politics, they are not actually the result of an insecure system.
- zzzzzzzza 4y agoi think the gov should tell you when you are eligible to vote rather than relying on you to find where they have (randomly) stashed that information, and ideally make it equally convenient for everyone, one other commenter suggested a universal on by default mail in voting system would be better and redundant with my proposal for online voting. I asked gpt3 where I could get updates on elections I would be eligible to vote in my state and it told to subscribe to my secretary of state's twitter account, it has like 700 subscribers. Nobody is following this information, except for politically active groups like churches which is where my relatives learn this stuff is happening. (aka hyper political people as opposed to moderates are the ones voting) it just reminds me of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy when the vogons tell the protaginst that he has no right to complain since their plans for a hyperspace lane through earth were publicly available in their vault on whatever planet. i also think convenience is more important than the secret ballot since many organizations could accurately predict how you would vote from correlations they have collected about you.