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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe paper ballot as the only way to vote has been proven in this election.
The Repukes and Russians could not hack the paper ballots brought to us via the virus and the deaths of so many. The paper ballots agree with the polls. Machine votes don't and tilt red. I hope to hell this lesson is learned now, at long last.
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The paper ballot as the only way to vote has been proven in this election. (Original Post)
rzemanfl
Nov 2020
OP
Tabulations can still be hacked, but it's MUCH harder. I'll have a paper ballot please! n/t
Pobeka
Nov 2020
#6
It is extraordinarily difficult to 'hack' tabulated ballots that were double counted.
joshcryer
Nov 2020
#9
demosincebirth
(12,518 posts)1. I always voted by mail
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)5. Took it in this time, because DeJoy. n/t
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. Absolutely agree.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)3. Absolutely!
Can law be passed mandating paper ballots?
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)12. Check in after the Georgia special elections. n/t
Freethinker65
(9,934 posts)4. +1000
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)6. Tabulations can still be hacked, but it's MUCH harder. I'll have a paper ballot please! n/t
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)7. The paper ballots would prove the hack. n/t
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)8. Exactly, but it does require a manual count/audit, and CAN BE DONE! n/t
joshcryer
(62,265 posts)9. It is extraordinarily difficult to 'hack' tabulated ballots that were double counted.
Remember they are counted twice, once when the anonymous envelope arrives, and second when they are tabulated. You can do some shenanigans but they would be detected and the votes would then be run through the tabulation or counted by hand.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)10. Yes. The target to hack would be the tabulation software itself.
And because you have paper ballots you can actually audit the tabulation software independent of using the software itself.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)13. Last years Hacker Convention
proved the weakest like is Tabulator Software.
Blue Owl
(49,937 posts)11. Double K&R
fierywoman
(7,641 posts)14. I agree a bazillion times.