A "system" consisting of properly configured hardware (and properly configured and audited accompanying software) that utilizes paper ballots which are scanned into local tabulators is probably as close as one could get. The Feds should be making every effort to making sure that is the standard as soon as possible.
COH appears to have an issue with any attempts to federally mandate more secure systems with a paper trail backup, because that's the Republican position. This should be a no-brainer, but for whatever reason the Republicans have dug in their heels and aren't going to allow it to happen, at least not any time soon. It boggles the mind.
The feds control some voting rights issues and the dates of federal elections, but nothing else. Research it and tell me why Broward Co., FL has voting machines so different from , oh, say, Monroe Co., IN. Why re ballot access laws different state to state? There that ugly thing called the Bill of Rights that holds the feds partially at bay in some matters. Its not enough, but at least its something.
So Freedom!, right? Let the states and localities determine it, right? That's all fine and dandy in theory, but I'd prefer mandated standards nationwide, rather than leaving the county clerks to the mercy of the vendors and their sales pitches when it comes security. Like any other consumer, those people are going to be looking more at convenience and ease of operation, rather than understanding system security and insisting on it above most other considerations.
I'm not trusting the county clerk's office to know what we're even talking about.
When I lived in Ohio, the machines had what seems to me is the obvious solution you are talking about. After I cast my vote, the machine would print a copy of my completed ballot on a long ticker tape and display it through a window. If it was correct, I'd hit accept, and the computer would record my vote, and the paper copy would scroll up ready for the next voter. So both a digital and a paper record were created as I cast my ballot.
While it does check off the "paper trail" box, that to me seems overly complicated. As I described early in this thread, the way it's done in Monroe Co IN seems to me to be ideal, for its simplicity, its redundancy, and its minimal use of electronic devices.
In other words, you're only cool with more secure elections if they aren't required.
It's really not complicated at all. I probably explained it poorly. The point was that the computer is easy to use, and it creates a paper backup immediately, which I, as the voter, get to confirm as accurate before I actually cast my ballot. It literally probably only took me 20 seconds longer to vote in Ohio than here in Indiana. And that's being pessimistic.
I meant that systematically, having people vote on a machine rather than on a paper ballot, is more complicated than necessary.
Or a change in South Florida could just be a rise of the far-right Latina
You’re seeing far right Latina candidates pop up all across the Rio Grande Valley and South Texas as well. They’re fueled by nothing but white rage and xenophobia.
They may think they can pass a law … but any electronic device will have cybersecurity assets that engender hacking risks. Gun control doesn’t stop criminals from buying guns illegally does it?
Do you accept that the 60 plus lawsuits filed by the Trump team claiming that there was fraud in the elections were all thrown out?
If you will note the date, that post was discussing 2016. I do not in any way believe there is rampant voter fraud.
