Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by JasonFruit on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:22PM
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They are anonymous, and I'm saying I like that. I'm only responding to the "ballot tied to a voter" aspect of the comment to which I replied.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by skrowl on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:39PM
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In Ohio, they scan your ID, then keep track of the ballot number they give you.
Thus, if they audit they can be sure the ballot was cast by a legitimate voter.
If you don't tie ballots to voters, you go full Florida where they just keep "finding" boxes of prefilled ballots.
You MUST tie a ballot to a voter if you want your elections to have any integrity at all. There is no other way to prevent double voting, voting out of precinct, etc.
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by SlowRobotAhead on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:59PM
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>If you don't tie ballots to voters, you go full Florida where they just keep "finding" boxes of prefilled ballots.
Broward county, 2016 election. They found a box of filled out ballots at the airport return in a rental car trunk... never a word about it again. Same county, defying a judges orders, the police stopped anyone from entering/auditing the count under direction of then admin Brenda Snipes.
Guess who oversaw Bush / Gore recount? Brenda Snipes.
What is the definition of insanity again?
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by tomatotomato37 on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:20PM
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The Bush/Gore recount was 2000, 3 years before Snipes was appointed admin; that being said her entire history is a tale of general incompetence culminating in getting kicked out last year for bungling the 2018 election so you aren't that far off the mark