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Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
10. Well, I grew up with paper ballots. Every election had lost/stolen ballot boxes, miscounted ballots
Tue Jul 11, 2017, 02:52 PM
Jul 2017

and worse. People have been blaming losing an election on miscounted votes for a long time. It's like a boxer that loses and says they were robbed by the judges. In fact, in the South, the Demo(Dixie)crats were accused of cheating. Of course, they were just GOPers under the name of Democrats.

Again, I'm fine with paper ballots if that's what it takes to restore faith in our elections. But, I don't think as many people as you feel the actual voting process is tainted when our government is doing its job regarding cyber-security. I think things like healthcare, jobs, getting Dems elected at local level, etc., are for more important that grousing about voting machines that might be compromised.

Paper ballots, blue ink on thumbs, whatever, the losers will never know for sure.

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