Americans should use more paper ballots, instead of using methods that people don’t understand and cannot prove is accurate
We do. The machines print a paper ballot. The ballot is recorded electronically as well, but the ballot is inserted by the voter into a locked container.
The thing is, we don’t always count the paper ballots by hand. We only do manual counts if the race in a particular voting district is very close.
There were a lot of districts that voted for Trump in numbers just large enough to avoid these manual recounts. A suspicious amount, some might say.
Many states have different methods, some better or worse.
The recount thing made me very excited the last few years. I totally agree with what you said.
It’s easy enough to get a printed receipt, and make a paper trail. It’s rarer to have those used.
Some states do it this way. Other states do it all electronically (fewer now than in the past, thankfully). Other states do it all on paper and do the counting with offline counting machines, then spot check some precincts at random. Some do it by mail entirely on paper.
And that’s the big reason why this line of inquiry is nonsense. The entire country showed a huge shift to the right, not just the swing states or the states that are more vulnerable. That’s 51 entirely separate election systems that you’d have to manipulate, make sure public information about the election matches exactly, and also not go so far that any independent exit polls show anything fishy either. The scale of conspiracy to do it in even one state, make no mistakes, and have no one leak is hard to believe. Doing it across the entire country? You’re going to need a lot more than “I feel like the numbers are fishy” to be convincing. The conservatives were wrong when they said 2020 was rigged, and anyone saying 2024 was rigged is equally wrong.
It varies a lot by state. Washington primarily uses mail-in paper ballots. I love never having to visit a polling location. (In-person voting is an option here, but everyone I know votes by mail).
I don’t understand why anyone would want to vote in person. I have always voted via mail-in ballot.
In Texas, where I live, it’s illegal for me to vote by mail in ballot. I will be able to vote this way when I am 70 years old.
After years in Oregon and Washington, this whole thing of having to go to a polling place was weird. Also, even the secretary of state in Arizona mailed out voters’ guides that we apparently need LWV to put out. Not that I’d trust Paxton with anything but a loaded gun in a locked room, but how we run elections here is pretty anachronistic.
No one wants to. This is just a suppression lever.
My anxiety dictates that I go on Election Day to vote in person. I’ve seen too many examples of people’s mail-in ballots not being counted and mail-in has too many potential points of failure. When I can physically drop my ballot into the counting machine, I know it has been counted.
I think the most obvious use case for in-person voting is for homeless people. But there are also people who just like it better.
This is one of those “I don’t even care if it’s true” moments. Take action.
Why would you not care about the truth here? That seems incredibly irresponsible.
Idk if this is what they meant but I don’t care if it’s true if the machine altered votes, if it’s suspicious they should do a paper recount either way and prove the machine integrity or lack thereof.
I respect that
Always remember that any GOP accusation is actually admission of guilt.
This news broke last week.
Never seen a red factuality score for a site.
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Your referring to faithless electors and, no, it’s blatant misinformation to claim that swung any recent election.
Of course they were. There’s no way that that many people refused to vote for her after her boy Biden took peoples homes and securities, and killed the economy, became an international embarrassment and the worst president ever. It had nothing to do with her partying like there’s no urgency while everything burned, even being piss drunk to the point where she couldn’t convey a clear idea of a future at her own assemblies. It totally couldn’t be that the average person, a good person more than willing to entertain the notion of a woman for president, looked at her and saw anything but someone they would call a woman or a president.
I for one think we all deserved better from both parties. The real problem to get addressed should be when a two party system breaks down by both parties running an extremist in which neither represent the majority of the people all that well. ‘Better than the others’ is not always a good thing in and of itself as we are all right now (and yet again) witnessing the results of more poor leadership on a spectacularly global level. Well, except for Finland I suppose. Maybe we should hire them to come in and run things for us while we sort shit out. Maybe Lordi can help.
