Musk pushes debunked Dominion voting conspiracy theory at first Pennsylvania appearance(www.cnbc.com)

So you fully trust computers that can kill you and others without a thought, but you don’t trust a computer to do the insanely simpler task of “count paper?”

Also, musk and all the other disingenuous shitheads are complaining about any digital counting, including your preferred scantron ballots. They want very slow, flaw ridden human counting only, so they can inject chaos and noise into the electorial system and force the “congress picks the president” process in our constitution that will always favor the GOP.

Paper ballots are already used in 98% of all US elections, they are just counted digitally. These are not serious people with serious concerns.

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intensely_human@lemm.ee

-7 points

2 months ago

A computer that lands a rocket incorrectly is found out immediately.

A computer that tallies votes incorrectly may never be found out.

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zarp86@sh.itjust.works

4 points

2 months ago

Of all the hot takes I’ve read on the internet today, this is one of them.

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odelik@lemmy.today

7 points

2 months ago

You do know that the electronic vote counts are audited, right?

There’s a process to validate that the machines are counting correctly.

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mipadaitu@lemmy.world

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2 months ago

Yes, it’s called a paper copy of the vote cast. The problem isn’t technical, it’s a trust issue.

You can’t trust an entirely digital process for voting, because either it’s not independently auditable, or it’s not anonymous. Our current system of vote counting requires an independent group of people counting a subset of the ballots in order to ensure the voting was done fairly. You can’t do that if the process is entirely digital.

The people in this thread aren’t just jumping on a Musk bandwagon, the dude is a moron and he is trying to sow doubt in the process.

I myself support the current scantron style system that we use in our local election offices here. You get the instant electronic counters, and you get a paper ballot that can audit that the electronic counters did their job correctly. There are many other ways to have a perfectly valid system, but this one is extremely robust against any sort of tampering.

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