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This was the claim to which I was responding: > Then we switched away from paper ballots to e-voting You are objecting to claims neither I nor the OP made: >
by runako 3y ago
This was the claim to which I was responding:
> Then we switched away from paper ballots to e-voting
You are objecting to claims neither I nor the OP made:
> punch ballots are not what people generally mean by hand marked paper ballots
In particular, nobody said anything about how the paper ballots were marked.
Absolutely agree with your points that there is a concerted effort to make our elections look illegitimate by e.g. not allowing early/absentee ballots to be counted before Election Day, underfunding elections processes, designing elections so that some areas have incredibly long lines on Election Day, etc.
- daveguy 3y ago1) Florida did not switch to e-voting machines. They switched to what most people mean by HMPB - hand marked bubble fill, scanned optically and retained for audits. Most importantly: 2) There is no problem with hand marked paper ballots optically scanned. And those aren't considered e-voting machines where votes are recorded electronically. The whole point of whether hand marked paper is a problem depends on how they are marked (eg NOT punched) and to not acknowledge that is disingenuous. I'm glad we are on the same page with improving efficiencies. Lack of polling places => long lines on election day is particularly egregious.