Whats the most common rationale against using hand-counted paper ballots?
The most common statement is so stupid that I feel insulted to even have to refute it. People who are pro-DRE always say “We have a 200 year history of problems with paper ballots, and it has been shown over and over again that we cannot secure them from tampering”. Anyone with half a thimbleful of sense will realize that what they are saying is, “We have 200 years of rampant election fraud, and so far we have been unable to figure out how to keep fraudsters from having unrestricted physical access to our voting medium”. Can anyone possibly explain how adding networked, closed-source computers to the equation will make the process more open, auditable, and trustworthy? If you can’t secure a big locked box holding a bunch of paper, where people have to change one vote at a time, can we reasonably expect you to secure a group of networked Windows PCs? Come on – nobody is really this stupid. David Allen of BlackBoxVoting.
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