A group of computer security experts have written to Vice President Kamala Harris to alert her to the fact that voting systems were breached by Trump allies in 2021 and 2022 and to urge her to seek recounts in key states to ensure election verification. Following the 2020 election, operatives working with Trump attorneys accessedRead More
I didn’t go to many classes during University, but I remember one class very well, on of the Cryptography classes, the professor spent the entire 2 hours explaining point by point why voting machines are a bad fucking idea and how many new problems it introduces over having to count paper ballots, which is literally the only issue with paper ballots, you need more people, time to count them. They are very hard to fake and if you manage to do it, you can only fake a few votes, compare it with voting machines which are still hard to breach, but if you do you can change election results, this is just the one of many issues.
Paper ballots with machine scanning seems like the ultimate combo. Full paper trail and counting is still fast for 99.9% of the votes. The other 0.1% might take some deciphering if the smudge is actually a mark or an erased mark, or if that tiny dot is intended to be a mark. But, given we are talking 0.1% of the votes here, it generally won’t matter, and when it does, having the full paper trail is 100% worth it.
I didn’t go to many classes during University, but I remember one class very well, on of the Cryptography classes, the professor spent the entire 2 hours explaining point by point why voting machines are a bad fucking idea and how many new problems it introduces over having to count paper ballots, which is literally the only issue with paper ballots, you need more people, time to count them. They are very hard to fake and if you manage to do it, you can only fake a few votes, compare it with voting machines which are still hard to breach, but if you do you can change election results, this is just the one of many issues.
Paper ballots with machine scanning seems like the ultimate combo. Full paper trail and counting is still fast for 99.9% of the votes. The other 0.1% might take some deciphering if the smudge is actually a mark or an erased mark, or if that tiny dot is intended to be a mark. But, given we are talking 0.1% of the votes here, it generally won’t matter, and when it does, having the full paper trail is 100% worth it.