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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by gruez on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:01PM (#20761077)
>you will need some kind of proof that the results are invalid.

are discrepancies between exit polls and election result valid reason?

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Re:16M Americans will vote on hackable paperless machines by ascagnel_ on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @04:28PM (#20761368)
Exit polls are considered non-scientific for a variety of reasons.

A better option is human-readable paper ballots, as you can manually compile results from batches of ballots and run stop-loss audits on them.

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