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So you're for this voting system then? Your messages reads like you're against the system mentioned in the submission, but it seems like the system is actually

So you're for this voting system then? Your messages reads like you're against the system mentioned in the submission, but it seems like the system is actually doing it via paper, just like how you want it? The trial described in the article: > On November 8, VotingWorks machines will be used in a real election in real time. New Hampshire is the second state to use the open-source machines after Mississippi first did so in 2019. Some 3,000 voters will run their paper ballots through the new machines, and then, to ensure nothing went awry, those same votes will be hand counted in a public session in Concord, N.H. It seems to involve paper ballots, as far as I can understand it. And this is how the authors of the voting system describes it themselves: https://www.voting.works/voting-system https://www.voting.works/voting-system

ilc 4y ago
I'm not sure I like VMDs. They can lead to slippery slopes. IE: Only Fred used the VMD... Or how does the counter interpret the VMD? Are people vigilant about checking their ballots? Pen, paper -> Into Box -> Counting, KISS. I can deal with a scantron. Not much more is needed here. I'd rather we work on chain of custody and figuring out who has voted etc, that are harder to solve. Though honestly, the fraud rates are so low, on double voting, I suspect made up voters, and ballot box stuffing are bigger concerns.
- anigbrowl 4y ago
  You originally wrote: > Been filling out paper ballots for years. I don't want to vote on a machine. A machine can count my vote. But there should be a paper that goes in the ballot box, so it can be recounted using multiple methods. And that's what happens here. People vote on paper, they put their paper ballots in a box, a machine counts them, and they are also separately counted by hand, in public. I'm not sure what you're talking about with 'VMDs', an abbreviation that nobody else in this thread has used, and which doesn't appear in the link from the GP post. Are you for the system being used in New Hampshire, or not?

ilc 4y ago

I'm not sure I like VMDs. They can lead to slippery slopes. IE: Only Fred used the VMD... Or how does the counter interpret the VMD? Are people vigilant about checking their ballots? Pen, paper -> Into Box -> Counting, KISS. I can deal with a scantron. Not much more is needed here. I'd rather we work on chain of custody and figuring out who has voted etc, that are harder to solve. Though honestly, the fraud rates are so low, on double voting, I suspect made up voters, and ballot box stuffing are bigger concerns.

anigbrowl 4y ago
You originally wrote: > Been filling out paper ballots for years. I don't want to vote on a machine. A machine can count my vote. But there should be a paper that goes in the ballot box, so it can be recounted using multiple methods. And that's what happens here. People vote on paper, they put their paper ballots in a box, a machine counts them, and they are also separately counted by hand, in public. I'm not sure what you're talking about with 'VMDs', an abbreviation that nobody else in this thread has used, and which doesn't appear in the link from the GP post. Are you for the system being used in New Hampshire, or not?