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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:22PM (#20759939)
Why is the "speed of automation" important? Just hire more people to count if it's too slow.

Voter ID is entirely orthogonal to this issue. Tying ballots to a voter is not desirable, since it opens the door for voter intimidation.

Edit to respond to the "hey we just found this box of filled in ballots" comment: anonymous voting means you don't know how someone voted, but whether or not they voted is still public record. The number of ballots counted still needs to match up with the number of votes cast.

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by jakeogh on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:41PM (#20760182)
Voter ID does not tie the ballot to a voter.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by jakelazaroff on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:46PM (#20760253)
The comment to which I was responding advocated it:

> Paper ballot tied to a voter via a strong voter ID + electronic counting is the best of both worlds.

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