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> We should move back to paper voting. We already use paper voting. If you mean go back to a time before voting machines, then I fear that would actually reduc
by xmprt 9mo ago
> We should move back to paper voting.
We already use paper voting. If you mean go back to a time before voting machines, then I fear that would actually reduce trust because the amount of tabulation errors, data entry, and spoilt ballots would skyrocket. The only people who are increasing doubt in voting machine are the same people who are trying to disenfranchise voters and not accepting the results of past elections.
The last presidential election where doing a paper recount might have helped was in 2000 and believe it or not, the same party that's calling for abolishing voting machine today was the one who sued to avoid a paper recount then.
- plagiarist 9mo agoThey did start a recount! IIRC SCOTUS, at that time already taken over by partisans, illegally ruled to force the original results on us instead of correctly ruling for all FL districts to use the same methodology when performing the tallies.
- cael450 9mo agoYeah. The Republicans blatantly sabotaged the recount and everyone shrugged and moved on.