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[–] Skullgrid 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Afaik in most democracies, ballots are verified as from being legit people, then anonimised , then checked for being valid (not spoilt ballots) then processed to see what they voted for.

During counting you can remove a ballot for being spoilt but not due to its caster being dead.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, that makes sense. I thought I’d heard about individual ballots being challenged in all the 2020 bs, but I just looked it up and it looks like ballots can only be challenged before they’re counted, which matches with what you just said. So probably what I’d heard is either challenges that came in before that point, or it was republican nonsense that was presumably shot down.

But yeah, verifying -> anonymizing -> counting and they can’t go backwards makes a lot of sense, and that would fundamentally prevent removing dead people. Thanks for explaining

[–] Skullgrid 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

it looks like ballots can only be challenged before they’re counted, which matches with what you just said.

I mean, in the US specifically, and everywhere else, they can be disregarded for not being valid during the counting process, see :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper)#2000_United_States_presidential_election_controversy

or, if you're more degenerate:

https://balatrogame.fandom.com/wiki/Hanging_Chad_(Joker)

EDIT : thank you for being polite, you're welcome for my explaination.