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IDK what caused this discovered flaw literally days before voting starts, but hell to the yes paper ballots now.
Why are the President, and the GOP broadly, so afraid of paper ballots that can be checked? I'd actually like to see signed and accessible ballots used so the who and what the individual voted for could be verified by the voter on the county Supervisor of Elections website afterward.This information can still be kept secret from employers, relatives, Political Parties, L.E., etc. and is to be accessed only by the individual voter to see if there have been any "mistakes" made.
and we know damn well there are, in some places more then others.
Because right now, a surprising number of voters feel their votes are somehow being changed. Had a number of younger people tell me over the last couple elections cycles that they just don't vote because they think that's exactly what happens so why bother, why waste your time? When the citizens of our nation can't and don't trust the election process they tend to get discouraged about a lot more than just that regarding our system of government, say fuck it and turn American Idol or WWE depending. What Political Party benefits from this?
Oh sure, in many places like in my county you can access your voter info showing if your mail in ballot or ballot of any type was received and recorded, which is nice to know but recorded for whom exactly?
So as things stand now, just knowing they got it is hardly the half of it and certainly not the most important part. What It won't tell you is if something somehow got changed and recorded differently, either by accident (which can happen) or by design.Only the individual voter who cast the ballot would know that info and be able to take whatever steps are needed to correct it.
It will be cumbersome and time consuming the first few election cycles no doubt and delay the results for awhile but theoretically they'd have from November latest until early Jan of the following year, a good 2 months and change. In the following elections I think the cheaters would get discouraged and quit even trying especially if this made it easier to get a few of them caught and jailed
In this century the advantages of having unverifiable "secret ballots" are outweighed by the disadvantages and one party only exploits this and it indirectly lead to Gore losing due to the Ohio incident for example. Only gawd knows how many state races, etc.in which Dems far outnumbered and out voted members of the Trump Party,and yet somehow lost.
Look at the increasing discrepancies in exit polling, which used to be pretty accurate.
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