Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by ghaff on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:42PM
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Just numbers. But leaving aside ballot questions (of which there are usually around a half dozen in Massachusetts, more in some places like California), there were 13 state-level elected officials in 2018 plus whatever county-level or local officials there were on the town ballot. So you can be making 20-30 choices. That's a lot of paper shuffling.
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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by isostatic on Thursday August 22, 2019 @10:00AM
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How on earth do you spend time to adequately research so many decisions without overload?
Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines
by ghaff on Friday August 23, 2019 @08:48AM
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You don't really. There's usually lots of news about most of the ballot questions and the top state level offices. You may or may not be familiar with your local Congressional race and the lower-level state offices.
You probably start to get fuzzy about your state rep/senator. And are pretty much clueless about the county Sheriff, Board of Selectmen, and Register of Deeds.
In practice, a lot of the positions lower down on the list are running unopposed or have been in their position and seemed to have done fine for a while. Of course, this being Massachusetts, a lot of these seats are pretty much Democrat locks anyway.