I may be a minority opinion, but I hope demand for their systems goes away. I would be just as happy to go back to paper ballots counted by hand.
Our elections seem to be too messed up. There is too much opportunity for shenanigans.
yes there were shenanigans with manual systems such as paper ballots. But we are not getting better or more secure elections with improvements in technology.
Why is it, decades ago, we had results of elections on election night, with manual systems, but with all this high tech nowadays, election results are not known for weeks sometimes?
Definitely mind boggling....Someone found and paved the way to corrupt a good system. No one listened: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
They can’t go back to the old way. They just signed up millions of illegals to vote through motor voter.
“Last week, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors finally chose....Hart Intercivic”
“State and federal voting rights access law, including the Help America Vote Act or HAVA, protect the rights of people with disabilities to vote privately and independently. And those laws require the use of at least one electronic ballot marking devices at each precinct.”
It’s amazing that prior to electronic voting machines, votes could be counted and tabulated so the public could know the results by 11:00 p.m. on election night. Now, the results from some elections are not known for weeks.
Also, electronic voting machines make it possible for dishonest poll workers to just insert a number of votes for their preferred candidate and without a proper audit procedure in place, those totals are just accepted as factual.
We need to return to paper ballots and one day voting. We could make it a national holiday and have more polling stations available. Do the purple finger proof of voting and require a valid picture id be presented prior to being given a ballot. No “drop boxes” or mail-in ballot sent to all voters would be allowed.
Absentee voting would be allowed only for military, the disabled or very elderly, and provable valid reasons. Yes, away from home for college could be a reason, but penalties for voting in two state’s elections, should be punished by ten years in prison. The same for voting if you are not an American citizen.
Such a change would allow more secure elections and a return of trust that the elections are not tainted by fraud.
that’s a rhetorical question, right?