I keep seeing comments about how Canada avoided a similar fate because of its strict use of paper ballots; the US must have changed its system to include these electronic and possibly not airgapped machines.

  • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    29 days ago

    There will never be a voting method that doesn’t have accusations of conspiracy, because the accusations are the point.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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      29 days ago

      2024 Election Results Under Scrutiny as Lawsuit Advances

      Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.

      The lawsuit could renew debate about the 2024 election, though it won’t change the outcome since Congress has certified the results declaring President Donald Trump the winner.

      It comes amid unconfirmed reports that voting machines were secretly altered before ballots were cast in November’s election. The federally accredited testing lab, Pro V&V, that signed off on “significant” changes to ES&S voting machines—which are used in over 40 percent of U.S. counties—“vanished from public view” after the election, according to the Dissent in Bloom Substack.

      https://www.newsweek.com/2024-election-lawsuit-advances-2083391

    • Ziggurat@jlai.lu
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      29 days ago

      Pen and paper works pretty well. Everyone who can read/write/count understand how it works and can be appointed as a political/citizen observer.

      Moreover, if the count is public (not in the US but it’s the case where I vote) everyone can see the counting and get the number, all it takes is people having 2h to give to their country to help counting or just watch it.

      This make fraud almost impossible

      • fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        29 days ago

        The point is that accusations don’t have to be logical. Dozens of failed lawsuits proved the 2020 election wasn’t stolen but no one who doesn’t want to believe it will believe it. Facts and data don’t matter anymore in the US.