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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election. (thiswillhold.substack.com)

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[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The most WTF part is that you all use voting machines. In Canadian federal elections every vote is counted by hand, end of story.

[–] minoscopede@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago

💯 we should all be very wary of voting machines. If it's not fully open source and cryptographically verifiable, it's not secure.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Same in the UK

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I can't speak for the whole US, but in Connecticut we use a Scantron sort of system where you fill in bubbles on paper and feed it into a machine. This leaves us with a paper ballot in addition to the machine's totals. Using machines isn't necessarily a bad thing, it makes the count a lot faster and it's not like human counters couldn't lie. If other states don't have that paper backup though, they should.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

We use the same thing for civic and provincial elections in Canada, but for federal it's strictly hand count only.