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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 14 2021, @12:24AM (3 children)
Those are nice sounding, innocent sounding, excuses. But, it didn't just happen in Pennsylvania. It happened in Georgia, too. Then, the same thing happened again in the runoff elections, which the Dems won handily. It's a recurring once-in-a-lifetime occurrence that you might expect to see happen in one state or another, in about 40 years of voting. Same thing happened in other battleground states.
But, we're supposed to trust the fekkin election machines. They don't make mistakes. The people operating the machines don't make mistakes. What's more, the people operating the machines have no partisan ties. And, additionally, none of those machines are connected to the internet - except those ones that were publicly hacked into during testimony regarding the vulnerability of those machines.
But, don't mine me. I'm the trusting soul, who places complete faith in the Democrat political machine.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @02:12AM
As the "respectable" media tells you to do.
But I think the machine issue is a red herring. Operating mistakes should show up in a recount. Pulling out suitcases from under the tables when the observers have been ejected, pasting up the windows to prevent even remote glimpses (and photographs) is not something that happens when an election is supposed to be fair and the most secure EVAH.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday January 14 2021, @07:06PM (1 child)
Unless you have some solid evidence of actual election fraud large enough to swing the election all you have is conjecture and feelings, neither of which will stand up in a court of law.
No, you're not supposed to trust the election machines. That's why we wanted paper ballots that can be counted. I notice that you don't question the results from any of the states that don't have a paper trail to follow. Why do you trust those?
I'm going to take a guess that it's because the "correct" candidate won those.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 14 2021, @10:20PM
I question all of the election. All of it. I've never approved of any system without a paper trail. But the paper trail isn't even reliable. Whatever came of that 1/2 truckload of ballots shipped to Philly, that was delayed at the loading dock for all of a (8 hour) working day? Apparently filled-out ballots waiting to be counted, if necessary, but since they weren't needed, they were sent somewhere to be destroyed.
I'm not sure we can trust the results of any election in any state this time around, and certainly not in the designated "battle states".
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