• chilicheeselies@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Thats how they are gonna do it. The next election is going to be a sham one. They are going to rig it in their favor. Every fucking state shouls be going back to paper ballots

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      Of course the next election will be a sham. I keep asking people who think there will be legitimate elections in the U.S. from now on why the Republicans would ever give up controlling the entire federal government, “They just would” seems to be the answer.

      • But just legitimate-looking enough that Americans cannot seek political asylum abroad because you show up in the EU and the border agents be like “tHE uSa iS a dEMocRACy”, and you get deported back to the US, and then the US border agents will refuse to recognize your citizenship, and you end up in guantanamo.

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          Really? This sham got both Jimmy Carter and Donald Trump in the Oval Office?

          I guess the Illuminati don’t have much of a plan.

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      The states run the elections. There is nothing stopping the states from hiring cyber security professionals to make sure their elections are secure. Most state elections are still run by very competent people who are motivated to provide a free and fair election.

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        Uhh, no they do not.

        I have no option in Georgia for a paper ballot. I do it on a touchscreen computer each time. Yes that gets printed after i Digitally do it but not in an easy to read way. Then i put it into a bin that scans it and shreds it. No paper trail.

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          The bin does not shred it.

          But yeah the qr code being what’s scanned but the text being what you can read seriously compromises voter verifiability. So close, but not voter verifiable. Close enough to fool people.

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            A digital that is printed and then shredded is not a paper ballot.

            A paper ballot is a paper I vote on. That stays intact for historical accuracy.

            From your stance I am invincible. I have not died in the last five minutes therefore i am invincible.

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              no that is very much a paper ballot. The historical record part isn’t important.

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                But it is. Otherwise if the voting machine has an error, the paper it prints out has the wrong info, at that point there is no validation that can occur via recount or any other means.

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                  Or heaven forbid something in the software allows it to print the right vote but record the wrong vote. I’m with you: no paper trail = not a paper ballot.