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This is why people who say that elections should be run on the basis of hand counted paper ballots are insane.
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So are you a Democrat?
Or do you have great faith in the computer based systems?
How are paper ballots WORSE than electronic voting systems? They paper is obviously more capable of being reliably tracked in a physical manner.
Just because some schmuckos don’t comply with the documented procedures doesn’t invalidate they system itself.
Paper ballots always get found in an ‘overlooked’ box somewhere afterwards. Electronic voting *with* paper receipts means totals are given instantly and there’s no way for Democrats to manufacture enough paper ballots to win. And if they need to be audited later, the paper receipt solves that problem too.
Paper ballots get you those hours and hours and hours of time for Dems to manufacture ballots while their buddies ‘count.’
there’s a fine book called “The Secrets of the Hopewell Box” about Tennessee politics. Every election, the last ballot box to show up was from the Hopewell district outside of Nashville, and it always seemed to have JUST the right number of votes in it to swing the election.
One year someone checked the rolls and found the last 70 votes had been cast in alphabetical order.