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1. just an actual husbear (guizzy@pleroma.guizzyordi.info)'s status on Saturday, 07-Nov-2020 13:23:06 EST just an actual husbear
   @Moon I've yet to hear a good reason why paper ballots and manual counting isn't good enough. It's what we use here, and without such shitshows.
   
   Voting machines and vote counting machines sound to me like "answers" looking for a problem to solve.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Nov-2020 13:40:30 EST lnxw48a1

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      @guizzy @moon@shitposter.club
      
      All of this really points back to Florida's issues with "butterfly ballots" in 2000. Apparently, many voters found them confusing. Plus, people punched their ballots incompletely, leading to "dangling chads", which could prevent a vote from being counted.
      
      The idea is that electronic voting machines could avoid both of those issues. Naturally, in order to prevent other issues, these machines need to print voter-readable transcripts, which the voter then submits for counting.
      
      Several years ago, I drove #sonTwo over to the polling place in order for him to vote. After waiting an hour in line, he got inside and got his voting transcript printed. As he was heading to submit his votes, the election official announced that they were out of transcript paper, so as voting machines ran out of paper, they'd be pulled from service. There were probably 150-200 people still in line outside when that happened.
      
      (I was already a permanent vote-by-mail voter by then, so all I did was walk in and drop my ballot in a box.)
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 07-Nov-2020 13:50:29 EST lnxw48a1

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         Though I think the current machines transmit the count electronically, so the voter need never touch the transcript (which is preserved in case of recounts).