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by apothegm 89 days ago
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.
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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.