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It really was the most secure election ever

Journal by DeathMonkey

When all the votes are counted this year, Americans should have far more confidence their votes were tallied correctly than in 2016.

After that contest was upended by Russian interference, states vastly increased the number of votes that are cast with paper records that can be audited later. More than 90 percent of votes will have a paper record this year compared with about 80 percent in 2016.

States have also significantly improved how often and how scrupulously they perform post-election audits.

The changes have been especially significant in some of the states ... contested by Trump.

Georgia and Pennsylvania have both shifted from having paper records for few or none of their voters in 2016 to having paper records for all votes cast in their states — a protection security experts say is a bare minimum to ensure votes weren’t altered by hackers or miscounted because of a technology failure.

The Cybersecurity 202: More states now have paper trails to verify votes were correctly counted

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  • (Score: 1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:32AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:32AM (#1099202)

    https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3906667/posts [freerepublic.com]

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  • (Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @12:50AM (#1099210)

    ahhahahahahahaha

    OMG

    You RWNJs truly are idiots, like big giant derpy drug addled MORONS!! I'm not even going to do you the favor of telling you why you're so dumb. Thank you, I really needed some humor in these trying times. The grifters really have a low opinion of your intellect, but apparently that is deserved.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:07AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:07AM (#1099220)

      Oh noes the idiots are modding me down! Lol, doesn't change your stupidity. In fact that lets me know you read it and cared enough to downmod =)

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:26AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @01:26AM (#1099234)

        Don't worry, AC! We "ACs in Favor of Reality" have your back! We will mod you back up, to counter the forces of darkness and confusion! We wil refudicate the freepers, and misunderestimate the numbers of Q's! We will help the Runaway, to runaway, again.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @04:50AM (#1099312)

    One obvious data entry error and another that doesn't appear anywhere other than a single instance of CNN's time lapse of votes.