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[–] Aux -2 points 6 months ago (6 children)

That's loads of BS. Manual in person voting is easily scammed, just look at voting in Russia. Fuck this shit, everything should be 100% digital.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Paper voting leaves a literal paper trail unlike electronic voting that's always a total black box in all countries that have tried it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Blockchain based voting leaves a permanent and indelible record on the blockchain for all to see.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Manual in person voting is not easily scammed on a scale that can swing an election. The slow, inefficient, in person, physical process is a security feature.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't get what's wrong with paper ballots sent by mail. It's convenient and easy, with a paper trail for recounts. It's worked great in Washington for decades.

[–] Aux -1 points 6 months ago

Look at my other replies.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's no way to guarantee privacy. An overbearing spouse, an anti-union boss, or a judgmental pastor could all insist on seeing the votes marked as they prefer.

A voting booth was invented for this very reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You can fill it out in a booth if you want, there's in-person locations with help for the disabled and privacy areas.

It's illegal to insist on seeing someone's vote, so I'm not sure what would stop such people from requiring this hypothetical person to record themselves voting at a polling location. In general mail in ballots make voter intimidation much more difficult.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Manual in person voting is easily scammed, just look at voting in Russia.

Let me check. *looks through window* It's not the biggest source of voting fraud. Biggest source of voting fraud is Venedictov's box - Digital Electronic Voting.

Fuck this shit, everything should be 100% digital.

Sobyanin approves.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

it absolutely is not easily scammed at all.

every single piece of paper is numbered and tracked. (tickets and stubbs, basically). all counting is done by multiple people and watched by anyone who wants. political parties are banned from voting premises.

even better: early voting, in person, up to a week or two before. no crowds.

errors happen about 1 in 1,000,000 with a maximum of a couple hundred, and are caught immediately.

there is no scamming. all of the USA's voting problems are self-created.

[–] Aux 0 points 6 months ago