• @[email protected]
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    35 hours ago

    To be fair, I wouldn’t trust a computer program for voting either, but I would trust and ride in an autonomously landing rocket.

    Which is why I much prefer the scantron type fill in the bubble ballots, you get a full digital count with an easily cross referenced ballot.

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      3 hours ago

      So you fully trust computers that can kill you and others without a thought, but you don’t trust a computer to do the insanely simpler task of “count paper?”

      Also, musk and all the other disingenuous shitheads are complaining about any digital counting, including your preferred scantron ballots. They want very slow, flaw ridden human counting only, so they can inject chaos and noise into the electorial system and force the “congress picks the president” process in our constitution that will always favor the GOP.

      Paper ballots are already used in 98% of all US elections, they are just counted digitally. These are not serious people with serious concerns.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        A computer that lands a rocket incorrectly is found out immediately.

        A computer that tallies votes incorrectly may never be found out.

        • zarp86
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          21 hour ago

          Of all the hot takes I’ve read on the internet today, this is one of them.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 hour ago

          You do know that the electronic vote counts are audited, right?

          There’s a process to validate that the machines are counting correctly.