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We already use paper ballots[1]. You can't use reason to get people out of a mindset they didn't use reason to get into. [1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our
by mullingitover 7mo ago
We already use paper ballots[1].
You can't use reason to get people out of a mindset they didn't use reason to get into.
[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/some-good-news-donald-trump-we-already-use-paper-ballots https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/some...
- apothegm 7mo agoPaper ballots that we almost never bother manually checking against the insecure digital tallies unless there’s a very close race or explicit challenge to the count.
- estearum 7mo agoThis is just literally not true. Nearly every state routinely does statistical audits of voting machines compared with paper records. People hate to hear this but: statistics work. You can randomly sample a portion (say, 2% to 5%) of ballots and have effective certainty about how much fraud or error there is in your voting system.