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rkhassen9 | on: Trump wins presidency for second time
With all of the hacking and newfangled ai tools out there, perhaps hand counting removes some of that element.
smallstepforman | parent | next
Casino slot machines are highly regulated and certified by accredited agencies. They give accurate results. Vote counting machines, not so much.
TOMDM | root | parent
Extraordinary claims require if not extraordinary evidence but at least evidence at all.

And please not the dominion claims that even Fox settled out of court on because they knew they were lying.

laverya | root | parent
There have been quite a few demos over the years where voting machines are hacked. Now, this does not mean that they were hacked, for real, in a real election.

It does mean that it is possible to do, and in ways that paper ballots are not.

dotancohen | parent
And when electronic voting was first introduced, it was seen as a step towards reducing fraud in the hand counted voting process.

I suppose that one could conclude that electronic voting simply moved the fraud from local fraud to remote fraud.