Trump’s order could force states to buy costly new voting machines

The Washington Post ^ | April 13, 2025 6:00 a.m. EDT | Patrick Marley and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Or they could just move to inexpensive paper ballots, but then it would be a lot harder to cheat, so that's a hard "no."

[Howie66]

Forget the voting machines. We don’t want or need them.

[Gary from Dayton]

Good ol’ WAPO, always concerned about wasting money. /s

[HYPOCRACY]

What did this country do before voting machines? It’s always a fking excuse with these cheating scumbags. They know they are 25% of the electorate and can not win an election without cheating.

[mewzilla]

Lever machines are NOT expensive.

[FreeperCell]

Gonna watch this thread.

[VRW Conspirator]

WP is worried about cost?

[PeterPrinciple]

Election officials broadly oppose hand-counting ballots as an alternative because the practice is time-consuming and prone to errors.

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according to the article...........................

[bk1000]

I’d be willing to stick my finger in purple ink and use it to mark my ballot if it would help secure the vote. Voting machines are corrupt at worst, corruptible at best. I have zero confidence in them.

[newfreep]

Leftwing communists/socialists are pushing “chaos” as their buzzword....which is ironic since they implement chaos wherever & whenever possible.

[stanne]

Whoa! The Washington Post is outdoing themselves in stoopidity here

We know it’s ok with them to send our big money to zelensky a low level dictator of a non democratic country which is not in NATo, not even in the EU, not even a democracy

They come at this from a money angle!?

[I want the USA back]

So the WAPO favors cheating in elections.

[wetgundog]

Voter ID, paper Ballots, and Inked thumb. No registering a week before election. Can’t do it, Don’t get to vote.

[Sacajaweau]

Go back to the IBM punch cards

[V_TWIN]

“If Trump’s plan ever comes to fruition, it could hit taxpayers hard. Outfitting every state with new machines could cost $1 billion or more.”

hell, we can pay for that out of what Elon and DOGE saved us in a day.

[kvanbrunt2]

Machines commit murder. cars attacking people, and also they commit election fraud. Let’s put these machines in jail now.

[Qwapisking]

paper ballots, purple ink and one day voting.

[ncalburt]

Versus a Brutal Murderous EX KGB Dictator Putin who kills all his rivals or freedom loving
Russians and invades and kills defenseless people of neighboring countries . Glad i could sum up the real situation .

[Ikeon]

States get billions from the fed, have multi billion dollar budgets and are worried about a few million to stop election fraud?

The left doesn't want to be eleminated on a level playing field.

[chopperk]

Paper ballot and a pencil is cost effective to vote.