Reply #6: He's Absolutely Wrong

[Einsteinia]

He's making a false dichotomy.

Short Term Solution: Many election integrity activists, such as myself, believe that what happens in the "black tunnel" after our paper ballots are dropped into the hole, as long as we do an audit check when the ballots (or audit trails) come out of the tunnel that we'll have a 99%+ chance of showing if there's been any shenanigans in the black tunnel. If so, we can ask for a 100% hand random recount. By analogy, we have infinite ways to contaminate a municipal water system, but as long as we do sample checks of the end product before using it, we're generally pretty safe.

Long Term: That isn't to say, that we need to work on the "black tunnel" with ideas like OVC; however, they are all solutions that are at least two years away.

Conclusion: We're two moves from checkmate, and we REALLY don't have that much time.

I say make an audit protocol in the coming year AND also put some real windows in the black tunnel.