Reports of machines automatically changing votes from Waller to Reeves

[Thunder98 🇮🇱 🤝 🇵🇸]

This is why I hate voting machines.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/08/27/voting-machine-problems-video-changing-vote-bill-waller-tate-reeves-ms-election-governor-runoff/2129515001/

https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/459067-mississippi-officials-confirm-multiple-cases-of-voting-machines-changing

[Sir Mohamed]

Yup, voting machines are terrible. If we didn't have them, Al Gore would most likely have been prez.

[Continential]

Vote

(X) A

() B

After done voting

() A

(X) B

[Tintrlvr]

Option 1: Pay enormous amounts of money to buddies of local government officials for expensive electronic infrastructure that doesn't count votes any better than the low-tech option and at best malfunctions frequently and at worst can be interfered with or manipulated maliciously.

Option 2: Use paper ballots, which are cheaper and much less prone to error and can't be interfered with from afar.

Option 2 should be the very, very obvious choice for everyone. Electronic voting machines are a boondoggle with no purpose other than enriching friends of local and state election boards.

[Virginiá]

Probably broken sensors on the touchscreen display.

All the more reason to switch to paper ballots (again). Digital equipment could be very useful, but states are far too incompetent and cheap to actually make it work. They keep purchasing crap machines from companies that are probably buddies with one or more lawmakers, and they make no effort to stipulate secure, well-made machines. And to top it all off, they cheap out and refuse to upgrade their equipment until people get fed up after like 10+ years of using the same machines.

Everything would be much simpler and earn more trust from society if they just went back to paper ballots.

[GeneralMacArthur]

Probably broken sensors on the touchscreen display.

All the more reason to switch to paper ballots (again). Digital equipment could be very useful, but states are far too incompetent and cheap to actually make it work. They keep purchasing crap machines from companies that are probably buddies with one or more lawmakers, and they make no effort to stipulate secure, well-made machines. And to top it all off, they cheap out and refuse to upgrade their equipment until people get fed up after like 10+ years of using the same machines.

Everything would be much simpler and earn more trust from society if they just went back to paper ballots.

Paper ballots are more fun anyway.  I love that "ka-thunk" when you push the button on the NY voting machines.

Touchscreen voting feels like checking out at the supermarket.

[Mr. Smith]

Option 1: Pay enormous amounts of money to buddies of local government officials for expensive electronic infrastructure that doesn't count votes any better than the low-tech option and at best malfunctions frequently and at worst can be interfered with or manipulated maliciously.

Option 2: Use paper ballots, which are cheaper and much less prone to error and can't be interfered with from afar.

Option 2 should be the very, very obvious choice for everyone. Electronic voting machines are a boondoggle with no purpose other than enriching friends of local and state election boards.

Also the mail-in/dropbox option so that the polling station tricks mean a bit less.

[Tender Branson]

Voting machines/computers need to be banned for security reasons.

The US needs to switch back fully to paper ballots, even if vote counting takes weeks ...