Why don't they just release it and call it wrong or gay or woke whatever. It's worked for everything else, why bother trying to hide facts now when they can just tell their base to ignore it?
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Oh, a White House "study"? I'm sure that will be well sourced and follow a strict scientific approach. 🙄
I can't imagine why they wouldn't release it though. Clearly not because they're concerned about voter confidence since it's practically Trump's platform that our elections are rigged. These assholes parrot 2,000 mules bs still.
The Netherlands has a population of about 18m, which is more than any but the four most populous States in America.
Every election here in NL, federal to local, is pure paper ballots and managed by volunteers. And our voter turnout is nearly 20% more than that in America.
I don't see a problem with paper (unless you are FL then whatever.)
And that's why electronic voting will never work.
Most “electronic” voting these days prints a duplicate paper ballot that’s used to audit the vote for accuracy.
Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose?
Nope. The intent of electronic voting is to make tabulation faster and more accurate, and to make it easier for people to vote the way they intend without marking errors causing problems. A machine can much more easily increase font size, for example, or increase contrast. It can support a different way of marking for people who have difficulty with the standard.
None of that is incompatible with a physical artifact being produced like a paper ballot does.
That's how my area does it. The electronic machine actually fills out the same paper ballot that you would fill out by hand, but it can mark perfectly and make it easier to read and operate. The machine has no way of knowing who's voting, or making a change that isn't immediately evident. I think the biggest scandal they've had is once, during calibration, one of the machines indicated that the vote for township board of supervisors was to be cast for "the empty space between the list of candidates and the description of the item being voted on".
There are other proposals that would allow people to vote by phone which is solving a problem no one really has, and there are yet others that provides a digital code that allows the voter to verify that their vote was counted and factored into the final tally as they cast it. That one is interesting, but also not in conflict with a paper trail.
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