5 Sep 2023 2:42 am
A bedrock of democracy is ensuring that every vote counts. There needs to be a transparent system of vote counting so that people can trust that their vote is counted as they cast it.razoo » 27 Aug 2023, 12:05 am » wrote: ↑ It's time to abolish the Electoral College
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In most elections, the Electoral College has operated smoothly. State voters have cast their ballots and the presidential candidate with the most votes in a ...
Paperless electronic voting on touch screen machines does not provide confidence to ensure votes are counted the way voters intend.
The software on which votes are counted is protected as a corporate trade secret, and the software is so complex that if malicious code was embedded, no analysis could discover it.
Further, because there is no voter verified paper record, it is not possible to audit the electronic vote for accuracy, nor is it possible to conduct an independent recount.
This is a grotesquely designed, over-complicated, expensive system fraught with the potential for mistakes and undetected fraud.
We should not trust the future of our nation to such malleable technology.