Electronic Voting Is A Joke

[TheGreatGatsby]

Obama allegedly trying to make sure only Homeland Security can manipulate it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/u...-voting-system-against-cyberattacks.html?_r=0

Manual votes, manual counting; multiple layers of human oversight. This process worked for hundreds of years.

 

[Mac1958]

Obama allegedly trying to make sure only Homeland Security can manipulate it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/u...-voting-system-against-cyberattacks.html?_r=0

Manual votes, manual counting; multiple layers of human oversight. This process worked for hundreds of years.

Agree completely.

The parties can accuse each other of shenanigans, and they may both be right.

Either way, something this important should have a paper trail, absolutely.
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[whitehall]

Actually manual votes and manual counting is more subject to fraud than electronic voting. The Times is trying to create an appeal issue when they know the Hildabeast doesn't have a chance this November.

 

[Dekster]

Actually manual votes and manual counting is more subject to fraud than electronic voting. The Times is trying to create an appeal issue when they know the Hildabeast doesn't have a chance this November.

The issue isn't fraud but vote accuracy. Unless there is a paper trail, there is no way to verify the accuracy of the totals. It is why our city is switching from touchscreens to the paper scantrons. They will have the scantrons to run again if there is a question as to the accuracy of the results. touchscreens have no way to check.

 

[TheGreatGatsby]

Actually manual votes and manual counting is more subject to fraud than electronic voting. The Times is trying to create an appeal issue when they know the Hildabeast doesn't have a chance this November.

It's far from fail safe. But I disagree that it's more subject to fraud, generally speaking, when electronic numbers can get made up at the push of a button.

 

[Holos]

How is the kind of material (paper, plastic, metal) the votes are attributed to significant to their proper regulation?

It seems to me it would amount to bureaucratic processes, which can be done through any sort of material, and must be comprehended by those who participate in their functions in terms of prospecting collective benefits.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I'm a fan of the old NYC machines - the big-ass ones with the *chunk-chunk* level. They're entirely mechanical - no computers or electronics involved.