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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
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 13 2021, @06:34PM
Even though our last election was completely backed by paper, I feel a whole lot less confident about it as the primary counting was moved to back office facilities away from local precincts. Signature verification, stated by the courts to the Trump campaign to protect against ballot box stuffing, was not performed.
The elections process was changed by the republican legislature and the democrat governor last November, before the p(l)andemic was much in the news. If the entire last year was a scheme to get politics back to usual, the republicans will have hurt themselves the most. The democrats just hold all the smarts and talent in PR and demagoguery at the moment, while half of America supports a disrupter of politics as usual like Trump.