2020 election deniers ordered to pay $1 million in Pennsylvania voting machine dispute
A Pennsylvania judge has determined that three 2020 election deniers must pay nearly $1 million in fees as the result of a years-long legal dispute with state officials over voting equipment used during the last presidential race, according to recent court filings.
September 2, 2024 @ 7:01 pm
Paper ballots, people, hand marked paper ballots or it’s not a vote, it’s just a response to a digital opinion survey.
And the judge just destroyed any hope of anyone believing his state is on the up and up. The story didn’t say how often the inspections might have been requested, and denied, nor does it address why such a common sense precaution was prohibited in the fist place.
Moot point, anyway. Anyone who is not a total techno- savage knows it is utterly impossible to PROVE that the program loaded and running at any given point in time is one and the same identical code to what is found on the source media ALLEGED AND ASSERTED to be what was loaded. Cannot be done, not without shelling the whole system and opening one more layer for the tech savvy and unethical to exploit.
Paper ballots, people…printed with currency grade security… OR just admit that the American electorate now is exactly where the Roman electorate was 2000 some years ago… living a facade and a lie beneath the ever watchful eye of the first citizen.
September 3, 2024 @ 5:02 am
Minnesota has a really reliable system of paper ballots that are immediately scanned and verified. IF there’s a problem with the ballot, like stray pencil marks or uncertain entries, the ballot is kicked back out, and a do-over is required.
This way, you have the benefit of simultaneous electronic tabulation AND the
paper ballots saved in case there’s a problem with the electronics.
Net result – speed, efficiency, and available paper verification.
The only problem I’ve been aware of is when a hyper-religious election judge started bundling paper ballots in a special election – each bundle was supposed to be ten ballots, but she was bundling 7 or 8 for her favored candidate and counting them as ten while bundling 13 or 14 for the one wasn’t christianist enough to suit her. This came to light when the discrepancy between the electronic record and the paper ballots was examined.