5 Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Coup - James Fallows

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71. Just why is it they so utterly RABID when it comes to those voting machines

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and no VVPAT/VPR ? This is just a part of it. If you can build a simple cash register with an audit trail, you can build a goddamn voting machine with one. If you can build a computer with crypto on it, you can build a voting machine with crypto for the audit lists. SIMPLE

What people need to ask themselves is Why has this even been a question when it comes to these electronic voting machines.

Something else about this, for the electronic voting machines we do have, if some of the fools I have read about cannot operate these machines properly like we have seen done in Ohio and elsewhere, then we have the wrong people counting our votes. They are not qualified. SIMPLE

And those issues were not just about lack of training either. People will act as stupid as they want, if you let them. Those issues in those states were very little to do with just 'stupidity' and not understanding how to operate the machines. And if they WERE, we need new people counting our votes. SIMPLE

In business if people cannot operate computers, they are fired. The business of counting our votes is no different to me.