• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    That’s why the White House wanted the machines hacked.

    There is a reason many countries don’t use machines to vote. A truly verifyable, secret, and democatric election is mathematically impossible on digital machinery. The parameters are mutually exclusive, and nothing can fix that.

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      Is it not verifiable? The machines where I live print out a physical paper with your votes printed on it. Before you submit your vote sheet you can look and see all of your selections. I know this is saying that the machine was flipping the choice before it printed but you could verify it afterward once you have the actual paper in your hands no? Of course how they are tallied would have some grey area I suppose but that’s not part of this allegation.

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        The printable component just stores the data in case the digital comes up sus or someone challenges it.

        What happens when the tyrant refuses to allow challenges and those paper ballots are shredded

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        Machines are 1s and 0s. You could have the correct vote, review the correct name, and print out the correct thing… then after that it could all be changed and you have no way of knowing.