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by mullingitover 89 days ago
We already use paper ballots[1].

You can't use reason to get people out of a mindset they didn't use reason to get into.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/some...

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Paper ballots that we almost never bother manually checking against the insecure digital tallies unless there’s a very close race or explicit challenge to the count.
This is just literally not true.

Nearly every state routinely does statistical audits of voting machines compared with paper records.

People hate to hear this but: statistics work. You can randomly sample a portion (say, 2% to 5%) of ballots and have effective certainty about how much fraud or error there is in your voting system.